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Avoiding maximal parabolic subgroups of Sk

Toufik Mansour, Alek Vainshtein

math.COarXiv:math/0006164

Abstract

We find an explicit expression for the generating function of the number of permutations in Sn avoiding a subgroup of Sk generated by all but one simple transpositions. The generating function turns out to be rational, and its denominator is a rook polynomial for a rectangular board.

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