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1 GRAPHICAL MAJOR INDICES, II D. FOATA y AND C. KRATTENTHALER y Departement de mathematique, Universite Louis Pasteur, 7, rue Rene Descartes, F Strasbourg, France foata@math.u-strasbg.fr Institut fur Mathematik der Universitat Wien, Strudlhofgasse 4, A-1090 Wien, Austria. KRATT@Pap.Univie.Ac.At ABSTRACT. Generalizations of the classical statistics \maj" and \inv" (the major index and the number of inversions) on words are introduced that depend on a graph on the underlying alphabet and the behaviour of each letter at the end of a word. The question of characterizing those graphs that lead to equidistributed \maj" and \inv" is posed and answered. This work extends a previous result of Foata and Zeilberger who considered the same problem under the assumption that all letters have the same behaviour at the end of a word. 0. Introduction Let be a nite alphabet and U be a relation on. Without loss of generality we may assume = f1; 2; : : : ; rg. As U is a subset of, the relation U can also be considered as a directed graph without multiple edges on. This explains the `graphical' in our title. Given such a relation U, in [5] extensions maj 0 U and inv0 U of the classical major index and the number of inversions, respectively, were introduced for words w = x 1 x 2 : : : x m with letters from by m?1 maj 0 U w = i (x i+1 Ux i ) inv 0 U w = i=1 1i<jm (x j Ux i ): (0:1a) (0:1b) 1991 Mathematics Subject Classication: Primary 05A15; Secondary 05A10, 05A30. Key words and phrases: permutations, words, permutation statistics, major index, inversions, q-exponential y Supported in part by EC's Human Capital and Mobility Program, grant CHR- CT , the second author was also supported by the Austrian Science Foundation FWF, grant P10191-PH 1
2 (Here, as usual, (A) = 1 if A is true, and (A) = 0 otherwise.) Note that maj 0 < is the classical major index maj (introduced by MacMahon [9, 12] as \greater index", see also [1, Def. 3.5]), maj w = m?1 i=1 i (x i+1 < x i ); and inv 0 < is the usual number of inversions (often attributed to Netto [13, pp. 92f], though he cites earlier occurences; maybe the rst occurence under this name is [18]; but probably MacMahon [11, 12] was the rst to consider inversions of words instead of just permutations; see also [1, Def. 3.4]), inv w = 1i<jm (x j < x i ): Let c = (c(1); c(2); : : : ; c(r)) be a sequence of r nonnegative integers, and let v be the (non-decreasing) word v = 1 c(1) 2 c(2) : : : r c(r). We will denote by R(v) (or by R(c) if there is no ambiguity) the class of all rearrangements of the word v, i.e., the class of all words containing exactly c(i) occurences of the letter i for all i = 1; 2; : : : ; r. Then MacMahon [11, 12] showed that maj and inv are equidistributed on each rearrangement class R(c) (see also [1, Cor. 3.8]). This motivates to pose the same question for the generalized major index and generalized number of inversions: For which relations U on are maj 0 U and inv0 U equidistributed on each rearrangement class R(c)? This question was answered in [5, Theorem 1] by giving a full characterization of all such relations U. More precisely, there it is shown that Theorem A. The statistics maj 0 U and inv0 U rearrangement class R(c) if and only if U is a \bipartitional" relation. are equidistributed on each To make this understandable, we have to explain what a bipartitional relation is. DEFINITION. A relation U on is said to be bipartitional if there exists a partition (B 1 ; B 2 ; : : : ; B k ) of the set into blocks B l together with a vector ( 1 ; 2 ; : : : ; k ) of 0's and 1's such that x Uy if and only if either (1) x 2 B l, y 2 B l 0, and l < l 0, or (2) x; y 2 B l, and l = 1. In words, there are two dierent types of blocks B l, those with associated l = 0, let us call them 6U-blocks, and those with associated l = 1, let us call them U-blocks. Then x Uy if and only if x is in an \earlier" block than y, or if both x and y are in the same U-block. In particular, if x; y are elements of the same 6U-block then we have x6u y and y6ux. For later use we record that Han [8] has given the following axiomatic characterization of bipartitional relations. 2
3 Proposition. A relation U on is bipartitional if and only if (1) x Uy and y Uz imply x Uz, and (2) x Uy and z6u y imply x Uz. More general major indices and inversion numbers have been introduced when the underlying alphabet is partitioned into two subsets. For signed permutations, for example, Reiner [14], [15], [16], while developing his theory of B n P -partitions, was lead to dene a major index by making a distinction between positive and negative integers. This idea was extended to words by Clarke and Foata [2], [3], [4] who considered small letters and large letters and could calculate the corresponding generating functions. Finally, Theorem 2 proved in [5] that involved another denition of the major index closely related to the denitions used by the previous three authors, suggested that a more general equidistribution result was to be discovered, if major index and inversion number for words with two kinds of letters could be adequately dened. The purpose of this paper is to state and prove such a result. It is the content of Theorem B below. This theorem contains both Theorem A and Theorem 2 of [5] as special cases (see the Remark after Theorem B). It can even be considered as a merge of Theorem A and Theorem 2 of [5] into a single theorem. Of course, the new major index maj U and inversion number inv U introduced in this paper will have to generalize the major index and inversion number of [5]. For their denitions we need to partition the underlying alphabet into two disjoint subsets = n _[ d. (The subscripts \n" and \d" stand for no descent and descent at the end of the word, as will be explained in section 1.) Now let U be a relation on and given a word w = x 1 x 2 : : : x m with letters from dene maj U w = inv U w = m?1 i=1 1i<jm i (x i+1 Ux i ) + m (x m 2 d ); (x j Ux i ) + jfi : x i 2 d gj: (0:3a) (0:3b) Note that the dierence between maj U w and maj 0 U w equals 0 if the last letter belongs to n and equals the length of the word w if the last letter of w belongs to d. The dierence between inv U w and inv 0 U w is simply the number of letters of the word w that belong to d. As done for the previous pairs of statistics we can ask the following question : For which relations U on are maj U and inv U equidistributed on each rearrangement class R(c)? The main purpose of this paper is to answer this question by fully characterizing all such relations U. 3
4 Theorem B. Let = n _[ d be a given partition. Then the statistics inv U and maj U are equidistributed on each rearrangement class R(c), if and only if U is bipartitional and \compatible with the partition = n _[ d." To make this statement understandable, we have to explain what \compatible" means. DEFINITION. A relation U is said to be compatible with the partition = n _[ d, if for all x 2 n and y 2 d the relations x Uy and y 6 Ux hold. Thus, a bipartitional relation U is compatible with the partition = n _[ d if and only if U is bipartitional on each of the subalphabets n, d, and is such that for all x 2 n and y 2 d the relations x Uy and y 6Ux hold. This can be made even more explicit. Let (B 1 ; B 2 ; : : : ; B k ) be the partition of and ( 1 ; 2 ; : : : ; k ) the 0-1 vector associated with the bipartitional relation U. Then there is an integer h, 1 h k, such that n = B 1 _[B 2 _[ _[B h and d = B h+1 _[B h+2 _[ _[B k. Recall [5] that a bipartitional relation U can also be visualized as follows: Again let U = (B 1 ; B 2 ; : : : ; B k ), be the partition associated with U and let ( 1 ; 2 ; : : : ; k ) be the associated 0-1 vector. Rearrange the elements of in a row in such a way that the elements of B 1 come rst, in any order, then the elements of B 2, etc. Then U will consist of all the block products B l B l 0 with l < l 0, as well as the block product B l B l whenever l = 1. In Figure 1, for instance, the underlying relation consists of four blocks (B 1 ; B 2 ; B 3 ; B 4 ); the 0-1 vector is (1; 0; 0; 1). B 4 U U U U B 3 U U B 2 U U B 1 B1 B2 B3 B4 Fig. 1 By the above considerations, this relation is compatible with each partition = n _[ d provided n = B 1 [ [ B h with 0 h 4. 4
5 REMARK. Notice that Theorem A is the particular case of Theorem B when d = ;. Theorem 2 of [5] refers to bipartitional relations (B 1 ; : : : ; B S S k ), ( 1 ; : : : ; k ) such that n = B l and d = B l. l with l with We shall give two dierent proofs of the `if' part of Theorem B. The rst proof is by means of generating function techniques and the so-called \MacMahon Verfahren" that essentially gives a general tool for building bijections between words and sets of non-increasing sequences that record the horizontal word statistics such as maj U (see sections 2, 3). In an earlier version of the paper we have also described two P -partition proofs (not reproduced in the nal version) inspired by Stanley's work [19] and Reiner's [14], [15], [16], [17]. However, we decided to give a direct proof instead, avoiding all the denitions that would be necessary to explain the P -partition proofs. The second proof is by means of an explicit bijection (section 4). In section 5 we prove the `only if' part of Theorem B. The proof relies on the `only if' part of Theorem A. In addition, we start section 5 with a new proof for the `only if' part of Theorem B that is much shorter than the original proof, thus also providing a new proof of the full Theorem A. (We remark that another proof of the `only if' part of Theorem A, which is computer-assisted, was found by Han [7].) Our proof takes advantage of Han's axiomatic characterization of bipartitional relations given in the Proposition above. All the notation that we are going to use throughout the paper is introduced in section 1. Finally, in passing, we note that the exponential generating function for the number f r of all bipartitional relations on = f1; 2; : : : ; rg that are compatible with some partition of into two disjoint subsets equals 1 r=0 u r f r r! = 1 u2 u3 = 1 + (3? 2e u 4u ) 2 2! 3! The q-notations that we use are u4 4! u5 5! 1. Notation and preliminaries (a; q) k = (a; q) 1 = k?1 j=0 1 j=0 (1? aq j ); with (a; q) 0 = 1; (1? aq j ) for the nite and innite q-factorials; u6 6! + :
6 n (q; q) n = k (q; q) k (q; q) n?k for the q-binomial coecient, and n1 + n n k (q; q) n1 +n = 2 ++n k ; n 1 ; n 2 ; : : : ; n k (q; q) n1 (q; q) n2 (q; q) nk for the q-multinomial coecient. We shall use a number of special cases of the q-binomial theorem (cf. [1], Theorem 2.1 or [6], x 1.3), First, for a = 0, 1 n=0 (a; q) n (q; q) n u n = (au; q) 1 (u; q) 1 : (1:1) 1 n=0 and for u!?u=a, a! 1, 1 n=0 n=0 u n (q; q) n = Furthermore, with a = q s+1, 1 s + n u n = n n=0 1 (u; q) 1 ; (1:2) q (n 2) u n (q; q) n = (?u; q) 1 : (1:3) 1 (u; q) s+1 ; (1:4) and with a = q?s, u!?uq s, 1 q (n 2) s u n = (?u; q) s : (1:5) n Finally, extraction of coecients of u n in (1.4) gives s + n = q a 1++a n ; (1:6) n and in (1.5) gives q (n 2) s n = sa 1 a n 0 s?1a 1 >>a n 0 q a 1++a n : (1:7) Next we review our \U-notations" from the Introduction and add some new ones. Let w = x 1 x 2 : : : x m be a word with letters from. Classically we say that i, 1 i m? 1, is a descent of the word w, if x i+1 < x i. The number of descents of w is usually denoted by des w. Furthermore, maj w is simply the sum of all descents of w. 6
7 Now let be partitioned into two disjoint subsets, = n _[ d, and let U be a relation on. In analogy with the above terminology, we call i, 1 i m, a U-descent of w, if either x i+1 Ux i, or if i = m and x i 2 d. (By the way, this makes the explanation for our notation n and d that was promised in the Introduction. n is the set of all letters that create \n"o descent at the end, d is the set of all letters that create a \d"escent at the end of a word.) Also, denote by des U w the number of all U-descents of w (including a possible \descent at the end of w" when the last letter belongs to d ). Then maj U w is the sum of all U-descents of w. Finally, we adopt the \bipartitional" notations from [5], section 2. Namely, given a partition (B 1 ; B 2 ; : : : ; B k ) of together with a 0-1 vector ( 1 ; 2 ; : : : ; k ) we make the following conventions. Let c be the sequence c = (c(1); c(2); : : : ; c(r)) of nonnegative integers. As before, let v = 1 c(1) 2 c(2) : : : r c(r) and denote by R(v) (or by R(c)) the class of rearrangements of the word v. If the block B l consists of the integers i 1 ; i 2 ; : : : ; i` and if u 1 ; u 2 ; : : : ; u r are r commuting variables, then we write c 0 for c(1) 0; c(2) 0; : : : ; c(r) 0; jcj for the sum c(1) + c(2) + + c(r); u c for the monomial u c(1) 1 u c(2) 2 u c(r) r ; c(b l ) for the sequence c(i 1 ); c(i 2 ); : : : ; c(i`); c(b l ) 0 for c(i 1 ) 0; c(i 2 ) 0; : : : ; c(i`) 0; jc(b l )j for the sum c(i 1 ) + c(i 2 ) + + c(i`); u(b l ) c(bl) for the monomial u c(i 1) i 1 u c(i 2) i 2 u c(i`) ; i` P u(bl ) for the sum u i1 + u i2 + + u i`: (1:8)? jc(b In particular, l )j c(b l ) will denote the multinomial coecient c(i1 ) + c(i 2 ) + + c(i`) : c(i 1 ); c(i 2 ); : : : ; c(i`) 2. The generating function by inv U Let U be a bipartitional relation on supposed to be compatible with the partition = n _[ d. Denote by (B 1 ; B 2 ; : : : ; B k ) the partition of and ( 1 ; 2 ; : : : ; k ) the 0-1 vector associated with U. Furthermore, let h be the integer such that n = B 1 _[B 2 _[ _[B h and d = B h+1 _[B h+2 _[ _[B k. Finally, denote by A inv U (q; c) := 7 w2r(c) q inv U w
8 the generating function for the class R(c) by inv U. Under those assumptions we have the two identities: A inv U (q; c) = c0 q (jc(b l )j A inv U (q; c) u c (q; q) c = jcj jc(b 1 )j; jc(b 2 )j; : : : ; jc(b k )j 2 ) q jc(b l)j (? P u(b l ); q) 1 k l=1 ( P u(b l ); q) 1 jc(bl )j c(b l ) q jc(b l)j+( jc(b l )j 2 ) ; (2:1) (?q P u(b l ); q) 1 (q P u(b l ); q) 1 : (2:2) Call a pair (i; j) a U-inversion in the word w = x 1 x 2 : : : x m if i < j and x j Ux i. Formula (2.1) follows from the well-known generating function in the ordinary \inv" case. The q-multinomial coecient is the generating function for the class of words having exactly jc(b 1 )j letters equal to 1, : : :, jc(b k )j letters equal to k by \inv." Such a word gives rise to exactly l? jc(bl )j c(b l ) words in R(c). Now the letters belonging to each block Bl such that 1 l h and l = 0 provide no further U-inversions? and jc(b those belonging to each block B l such that l = 1 bring l )j 2 extra U- inversions when they are compared between themselves. Finally, the term jfi : x i 2 d gj that P is to be added to the number of U-inversions can also be written as jc(b l )j. This proves (2.1). Finally, we go from (2.1) to (2.2) by a routine q-calculation, using the multinomial theorem. 3. The generating function by maj U We keep the same assumptions on U and the same notations as in the beginning of section 2. Let A maj U (q; c) := w2r(c) q maj U w denote the generating function for the class R(c) by the statistics maj U. Our purpose is to show that A maj U (q; c) is equal to the right-hand side of (2.1), so that inv U and maj U are equidistributed on each rearrangement 8
9 class R(c). We rst prove a stronger result, namely, we calculate the generating function for each class R(c) by the pair (des U ; maj U ) (remember the denition of the statistic des U in section 1) and show by specialization that the generating polynomial by maj U is equal to that right-hand side. Proposition 3.1. Let A des U ;maj U (t; q; c) := w2r(c) t des U w q maj U w be the generating polynomial for R(c) by the pair (des U ; maj U ). Keeping the assumptions of the beginning of section 2 and the notations (1:8) we have the identities : A des U ;maj U (t; q; c) (t; q) jcj+1 k jc(bl )j = and c0 l=1 c(b l ) s0 q jc(b l)j A des U;maj U (t; q; c) (t; q) jcj+1 = s0 t s t s jc(bl )j + s? 1 u c jc(b l )j jc(bl )j + s?? P u(bl ); q s+1?p u(bl ); q s+1 jc(b l )j q (jc(b l )j+1 2 ) q (jc(b l )j 2 ) s + 1 jc(b l )j s jc(b l )j??q P u(bl ); q s? q P u(bl ); q s (3:2) : (3:3) Suppose that (3.2) has been proved. Multiply both sides of that identity by (t; q) c+1 and let t tend to 1. It is straightforward to see that the righthand side tends to the right-hand side of (2.1), so that A maj U (q; c) = A inv U (q; c), i.e., maj U and inv U are equidistributed. Furthermore, it is again a routine q-calculation to derive (3.3) from (3.2). It then suces to prove (3.2). PROOF OF PROPOSITION 3.1. We could accomplish this by appealing to the P -partition theory developed by Stanley [19]; another possibility would be to make use of the B n P -partition theory developed by Reiner [14]. Both theories can be considered as generalizations of the \MacMahon 9
10 Verfahren" (see [9] or [1], chap. 3). Instead of going through the denitions of (B n ) P -partitions, we prefer to give a direct approach, modelled after the MacMahon Verfahren. As in [5] x 4, we proceed as follows: Let w = x 1 x 2 : : : x m be a word of the class R(c), so that m = jcj. Denote by w(b l ) the subword of w consisting of all the letters belonging to B l (l = 1; : : : ; k). Then replace each letter belonging to B l by b l = min B l (with respect to the usual order). Call w = x 1 x 2 : : : x m the resulting word. Clearly the mapping w 7!? w; w(b 1 ); : : : ; w(b l ) (3:4) is bijective. Moreover, des U w = des U w and maj U w = maj U w. Accordingly, the polynomial A des U;maj U? (t; q; c) is divisible by jc(bl )j c(b l ). l In the sequel, for each l = 1; : : : ; k let m l = jc(b l )j. For each i = 1; 2; : : : ; m let z i denote the number of U-descents in the right factor x i x i+1 : : : x m of w (including one descent in m if x m 2 d ). Clearly, z 1 = des U w and z z m = maj U w. Now let p = (p 1 ; : : : ; p m ) be a sequence of m integers satisfying s 0 p 1 p 2 p m 0, where s 0 is a given integer. Form the nonincreasing word v = y 1 y 2 : : : y m dened by y i = p i + z i (1 i m) and consider the biword v w y1 y = 2 : : : y m : x 1 x 2 : : : x m Next rearrange the columns of the previous matrix in such a way that the mutual orders of the columns with the same bottom entries are preserved and the entire bottom row is of the form b m 1 1 bm 2 2 : : : b m k k. We obtain the matrix a1;1 : : : a 1;m1 : : : a k;1 : : : a k;mk : b 1 : : : b 1 : : : b k : : : b k By construction each of the k words a 1;1 : : : a 1;m1, : : :, a k;1 : : : a k;mk is non-increasing. Next, if i < i 0, x i = x i 0 2 B l and l = 1, there is necessarily a U-descent within x i x i+1 : : : x i 0. Hence z i > z i 0 and so y i > y i 0. The word a l;1 : : : a l;ml corresponding to the block B l will then be strictly decreasing. On the other hand, z m = 1 i x m 2 d. Let B l be a block of d, so that h + 1 l and denote by x i the rightmost letter of w that belongs to B l. If i = m, then a l;ml = p m + z m 1; if i < m, then, either there is one letter of n in the factor x i+1 : : : x m and necessarily one U-descent because U is supposed to be compatible with n _[ d, or all the letters in that factor are in d and in particular z m = 1. In both cases, a l;ml 1. Also note that a l;i y 1 = p 1 + z 1 s 0 + des U w 10
11 for all l; i. Let then s = s 0 + des U w. It follows that each of the words a l;1 : : : a l;ml satises s a l;1 a l;ml 0; if 1 l h and l = 0; s a l;1 > > a l;ml 0; if 1 l h and l = 1; s a l;1 a l;ml 1; if h + 1 l k and l = 0; s a l;1 > > a l;ml 1; if h + 1 l k and l = 1. (3:5) The mapping (s 0 ; p; w) 7! (s; (a l;i )) is a bijection satisfying l;i s = s 0 + des U w ; a l;i = p p m + z z m = i p i + maj U w: (3:6) Now it follows from (1.4) and (1.6) that so that by (3.4) l? ml c(b l ) 1 (t; q) m+1 = s 0 0 t s0 1 Ades U ;maj U (t; q; c) = t s0 (t; q) m+1 s 0 0 = t s0 +desu w q p i +maj U w = (s 0 ;p;w) = s0 = s0 t s t s sa l;1 a l;ml 0 sa l;1 a l;ml 1 ml + s m l q m l s 0 p 1 p m 0 s 0 p 1 p m 0 (s;(a l;i )) q a l;1++a l;ml q a l;1++a l;ml q (m l ml + s? 1 q p 1++p m ; q p i w t des U w q maj U w t s q a l;i [by (3:6)] sa l;1 >>a l;ml 0 sa l;1 >>a l;ml 1 2 ) s + 1 m l m l by (1.6) and (1.7). Hence (3.2) is established. 11 q (m l +1 2 ) s m l ; q a l;1++a l;ml q a l;1++a l;ml
12 4. The bijective proof of the `if' part of Theorem B Again keep for the relation U on the same assumptions as in the beginning of section 2. In this section we construct a bijection U from each class R(c) onto itself, satisfying maj U w = inv U U(w) (4:1) for all words w 2 R(c). The construction of the bijection U parallels the bijective construction in [5], x 8. As done in previous papers [20], [2], [3], [4], [5] we add a new letter to. Then we extend U to the relation U on [ fg by adding the relations Uj, j 2 d, to U. In other words, U is the bipartitional relation on [fg with blocks (B 1 ; : : : ; B h ; fg; B h+1 ; : : : ; B k ) and vector ( 1 ; : : : ; h ; 0; h+1 ; : : : ; k ). Note that for any word w with letters from we have maj U w = maj U w; (4:2) inv U w = inv U w: (4:3) Now we make use of a map that was constructed in [5], x 5. There, given a bipartitional relation, B say, a bijection B from each rearrangement class R(c) onto itself was constructed that satises maj 0 B w = inv0 B B (w) (4:4) for any word w 2 R(c). This map B had the additional property that it xes the last letter. To be precise, we use the above construction with replaced by [ fg and with the bipartitional relation B = U. Let w be a word with letters from. Form the concatenation w. Then we apply U to w. Since U xes the last letter, we have U (w) = w 0 for some word w 0 with letters from. This given, we dene U by U(w) := w 0. That U is a bijection is immediate from the construction. Of course, we also have to check (4.1). Now, we have which is exactly (4.1). maj U w = maj 0 U w [by (4:2)] = inv 0 U U (w) [by (4:4)] = inv 0 U w0 [by denition] = inv U w 0 [by (4:3)] = inv U U(w); [by denition] 12
13 5. The proof of the `only if' part of Theorem B We start this section by giving a new proof of the `only if' part of Theorem A. This new proof is much shorter than the original one. We remark that this gives also a proof of the complete Theorem A, because the `if' part of Theorem A is contained in the `if' part of Theorem B. (To obtain the `if' part of Theorem A, choose the trivial partition = n [fg in the `if' part of Theorem B.) In our new proof we take advantage of Han's axiomatic characterization of bipartitional relations given in the Proposition in the Introduction. PROOF OF THE `ONL IF' PART OF THEOREM A. Let U be a relation on such that maj 0 U and inv0 U are equidistributed on each rearrangement class R(c). We want to show that U is bipartitional. In view of the Proposition in the Introduction, it suces to show (U1) x Uy and y Uz imply x Uz for all x; y; z 2, (U2) x Uy and z6u y imply x Uz for all x; y; z 2. Proof of (U1). Let x; y; z be elements in such that x Uy and y Uz. By way of contradiction, let us assume that x6u z. We consider the rearrangement class R(xyz). By our assumptions, we have maj 0 U zyx = 3. Since, also by assumption, maj 0 U and inv0 U are equidistributed on R(xyz), there must be a word v 2 R(xyz) with inv 0 U v = 3. We observe that 3 is the maximum value that can be attained. So, since x and z occur in v, and since x6u z, we must necessarily have z Ux, and x must occur before z in v. Thus there are the following possibilities for v: v = xzy; v = xyz; v = yxz; and in addition y Ux; and in addition y Ux and z Uy; and in addition z Uy: There remain the following three cases for the relation U on fx; y; zg, Case I. x Uy Ux Case II. x Uy Ux Case III. x Uy6U x x6u z Ux x6u z Ux x6u z Ux y Uz6U y y Uz Uy y Uz Uy ad Case I. There holds maj 0 U yzx = 0, but also inv0 U w 1 for any word w 2 R(xyz), because of x Uy Ux. Thus maj 0 U and inv0 U are not equidistributed on R(xyz), which is absurd. ad Case II. There holds maj 0 U yzx = 1, but also inv0 U w 2 for any word w 2 R(xyz), because of x Uy Ux and y Uz Uy. Thus maj 0 U and inv 0 U are not equidistributed on R(xyz), which is absurd. ad Case III. There holds maj 0 U zxy = 0, but also inv0 U w 1 for any word w 2 R(xyz), because of y Uz Uy. Thus maj 0 U and inv 0 U are not equidistributed on R(xyz), which is absurd. 13
14 Altogether this shows that we obtain a contradiction in any case. Hence we must have x Uz. Proof of (U2). Let x; y; z be elements in such that x Uy and z6uy. By way of contradiction, let us assume that x6u z. Now observe that (U1), which was already established, implies y6uz. This is because in case y Uz we would have x Uy and y Uz, and thus x Uz, in contradiction with our assumption. Now we consider again the rearrangement class R(xyz). By our assumptions, we have maj 0 U yzx = 0. Since, also by assumption, maj0 U and inv 0 U are equidistributed on R(xyz), there must be a word v 2 R(xyz) with inv 0 U v = 0. Since x and y occur in v, and since x Uy, we must necessarily have y6ux (and x must occur before y in v). There remain the following two cases for the relation U on fx; y; zg, Case I. x Uy6U x Case II. x Uy6U x x6uz Ux x6u z6ux y6u z6uy y6u z6uy ad Case I. There holds maj 0 U yxz = 3, but also inv0 U w 2 for any word w 2 R(xyz), because of y6uz6u y. Thus maj 0 U and inv0 U are not equidistributed on R(xyz), which is absurd. ad Case II. There holds maj 0 U zyx = 2, but also inv0 U w 1 for any word w 2 R(xyz), because of x6u z6ux and y6uz6u y. Thus maj 0 U and inv 0 U are not equidistributed on R(xyz), which is absurd. Altogether this shows that we obtain a contradiction in any case. Hence we must have x Uz. REMARK. The argument above shows that it is even sucient to require equidistribution of maj 0 U and inv 0 U only on rearrangement classes containing only three letters. Han [7] has given another proof of the `only if' part of Theorem A based on his axiomatic characterization of bipartitional relations (the Proposition in the Introduction). In fact, our proof is directly inspired by his. Instead of letting the computer verify all possible relations U on the letters fx; y; zg (there are 2 9 = 512 such relations!) and sorting out the \right" ones, as he did, we have just provided an argument to reduce the number of cases to consider. PROOF OF THE `ONL IF' PART OF THEOREM B. Let U be a relation on = n _[ d such that maj U and inv U are equidistributed on each rearrangement class R(c). First choose c such that only letters from n are chosen. For these rearrangement classes, maj U and inv U reduce to maj 0 U and inv0 U, respectively. Hence, by the `only if' part of Theorem A, we infer that U is bipartitional on n. Secondly, choose c such that only letters from d are chosen. For these rearrangement classes, maj U and 14
15 inv U reduce to maj 0 U +jcj and inv 0 U +jcj, respectively. Again, by the `only if' part of Theorem A, we infer that U is bipartitional on d. Thus it remains to see how letters from n are related to letters from d. Take a letter x 2 n and a letter y 2 d. We want to show that we must have x Uy and y6u x. We establish this by excluding the other three cases. Case I: x6u y6ux. Then maj U xy = 2, maj U yx = 0, but inv U xy = inv U yx = 1. Thus maj U and inv U are not equidistributed on R(xy), which is absurd. Case II: x6uy Ux. Then maj U xy = 3, maj U yx = 0, but inv U xy = 2, inv U yx = 1. Thus maj U and inv U are not equidistributed on R(xy), which is absurd. Case III: x Uy Ux. Then maj U xy = 3, maj U yx = 1, but inv U xy = inv U yx = 2. Thus maj U and inv U are not equidistributed on R(xy), which is absurd. This shows that the only legal possibility is x Uy6U x. Hence, U is a bipartitional relation on that is compatible with the partition = n _[ d. References 1. G. E. Andrews, The Theory of Partitions, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 2, Addison{Wesley, Reading, R. J. Clarke and D. Foata, Eulerian calculus I: Univariable statistics, Europ. J. Combin. 15 (1994), 345{ R. J. Clarke and D. Foata, Eulerian calculus II: An extension of Han's fundamental transformation, Europ. J. Combin. 16 (1995), 345{ R. J. Clarke and D. Foata, Eulerian calculus III: The ubiquitous Cauchy formula, Europ. J. Combin. (1995) (to appear). 5. D. Foata and D. Zeilberger, Graphical major indices, J. of Computational and Applied Math. (1995) (to appear). 6. G. Gasper and M. Rahman, Basic hypergeometric series, Encyclopedia of Mathematics And Its Applications 35, Cambridge University Press, G.-N. Han, Une demonstration \vericative" d'un resultat de Foata{Zeilberger sur les relations bipartitionnaires, J. of Computational and Applied Math. (1995) (to appear). 8. G.-N. Han, Ordres bipartitionnaires et statistiques sur les mots, Electronic J. Combin. (1995) (to appear). 9. P. A. MacMahon, The indices of permutations and the derivation therefrom of functions of a single variable associated with the permutations of any assemblage of objects, Amer. J. Math. 35 (1913), 282{ P. A. MacMahon, Combinatory Analysis, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1916; reprinted by Chelsea, New ork, P. A. MacMahon, Two applications of general theorems in combinatory analysis, Proc. London Math. Soc., Ser. II 15 (1916), 314{ P. A. MacMahon, Collected Papers: Combinatorics, Vol. I, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, E. Netto, Lehrbuch der Combinatorik, Teubner{Verlag, Leipzig, Berlin, 1901; 2nd ed., V. Reiner, Signed posets, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 62 (1993), 324{
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