4 papers
Circular sorting in the alternating group
Melanie Ferreri, Eric Swartz, Nicholas J. Werner
The symmetric group is generated by transpositions, and problems of sorting permutations using transpositions are well studied. In recent work, Adin, Alon, and Roichman studi…
Enumerating Vector Parking Functions and their Outcomes Based on Specified Lucky Cars
Melanie Ferreri, Pamela E. Harris, Lucy Martinez +1
In a parking function, a car is considered lucky if it is able to park in its preferred spot. Extending work of Harris and Martinez, we enumerate outcomes of parking functions with…
The support of Kostant's weight multiplicity formula is an order ideal in the weak Bruhat order
Portia X. Anderson, Esther Banaian, Melanie J. Ferreri +7
For integral weights and of a classical simple Lie algebra , Kostant's weight multiplicity formula gives the multiplicity of the weight in the irreduci…
Bijections for generalized Wilf equivalences
Melanie Ferreri
Starting with an inclusion-exclusion proof of a combinatorial identity, a direct bijection can be produced using recursive subtraction (sometimes with a direct combinatorial descri…