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arxiv: 1008.1514 · v1 · pith:YLCSGM7Znew · submitted 2010-08-09 · 🧮 math.CO · math.PR

Moments of an exponential functional of random walks and permutations with given descent sets

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keywords descentpermutationsrandomcoefficientexponentialfunctionalgivenmoments
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The exponential functional of simple, symmetric random walks with negative drift is an infinite polynomial $Y = 1 + \xi_1 + \xi_1 \xi_2 + \xi_1 \xi_2 \xi_3 + ...$ of independent and identically distributed non-negative random variables. It has moments that are rational functions of the variables $\mu_k = \ev(\xi^k) < 1$ with universal coefficients. It turns out that such a coefficient is equal to the number of permutations with descent set defined by the multiindex of the coefficient. A recursion enumerates all numbers of permutations with given descent sets in the form of a Pascal-type triangle.

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