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Generalized Riffle Shuffles and Quasisymmetric Functions
Richard P. Stanley
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…
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A polytope related to empirical distributions, plane trees, parking functions, and the associahedron
Jim Pitman, Richard Stanley
We define an n-dimensional polytope Pi_n(x), depending on parameters x_i>0, whose combinatorial properties are closely connected with empirical distributions, plane trees, plane pa…