The Eulerian numbers on restricted centrosymmetric permutations

Abstract

We study the descent distribution over the set of centrosymmetric permutations that avoid the pattern of length 3. Our main tool in the most puzzling case, namely, $\tau =123$ and $n$ even, is a bijection that associates a Dyck prefix of length $2n$ to every centrosymmetric permutation in $S_{2n}$ that avoids 123.

17 pages, 6 figures