Descent Numbers and Major Indices for the Hyperoctahedral Group
Abstract
We introduce and study three new statistics on the hyperoctahedral group Bn, and show that they give two generalizations of Carlitz's identity for the descent number and major index over Sn. This answers a question posed by Foata.
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