Derangements with Ascending and Descending Blocks
arXiv:0908.3330
Abstract
We continue the work of Eriksen, Freij, and Wastlund [3], who study derangements that descend in blocks of prescribed lengths. We generalize their work to derangements that ascend in some blocks and descend in others. In particular, we obtain a generating function for the derangements that ascend in blocks of prescribed lengths, thus solving a problem posed in [3]. We also work towards a combinatorial interpretation of a polynomial sum appearing in [3]. As a result, we obtain a new combinatorial sum for counting derangements with ascending and descending blocks.
15 pages, 3 figures, updated information for reference [9] in v2