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Derek H. Stephens

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Bijections between pattern-avoiding derangements and desarrangements

Derangements are permutations without fixed points, and are in bijection with desarrangements: permutations whose first non-descent is even, or equivalently, permutations without ``pixed points''. Bsila, Cox, Hugo, Styron, and Zhuang recently proved a theorem characterizing all $Π\subseteq\mathfrak{S}_{3}$, such that $1\leq\left|Π\right|\leq3$, for which the number of derangements avoiding all patterns in $Π$ is equal to the number of desarrangements avoiding all patterns in $Π$. They left finding a bijective proof of this theorem as an open problem, and posed a related conjecture concerning the distributions of fixed points and pixed points over pattern avoidance classes. In this paper, we give bijective proofs of this theorem and conjecture.

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Restricted Jacobi permutations

Jacobi permutations, introduced by Viennot in the context of Jacobi elliptic functions, are counted by the Euler numbers $E_{n}$ appearing in the series expansion $\sec x+\tan x=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}E_{n}x^{n}/n!$. We conduct a systematic study of pattern avoidance in Jacobi permutations, achieving a complete enumeration of Jacobi permutations avoiding a prescribed set of length 3 patterns. In the case of a single pattern restriction, we obtain refined enumerations with respect to several permutation statistics: the number of ascents (or descents), the number of left-to-right minima, and the last letter. Bijections involving certain subfamilies of binary trees and Dyck paths, as well as generating function techniques, play important roles in our proofs.

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