Generalized Riffle Shuffles and Quasisymmetric Functions
Abstract
This paper concerns a probability distribution on the symmetric group generalizing the riffle shuffle of Bayer, Diaconis, and others. There are close connections with the theory of quasisymmetric and symmetric functions.
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