An area-bounce exchanging bijection on a large subset of Dyck paths

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Autori principali: Ayyer, Arvind, Sundaravaradan, Naren
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author Ayyer, Arvind
Sundaravaradan, Naren
author_facet Ayyer, Arvind
Sundaravaradan, Naren
contents It is a longstanding open problem to find a bijection exchanging area and bounce statistics on Dyck paths. We settle this problem for an exponentially large subset of Dyck paths via an explicit bijection. Moreover, we prove that this bijection is natural by showing that it maps what we call bounce-minimal paths to area-minimal paths. As a consequence of the proof ideas, we show combinatorially that a path with area $a$ and bounce $b$ exists if and only if a path with area $b$ and bounce $a$ exists. We finally show that the number of distinct values of the sum of the area and bounce statistics is the number of nonzero coefficients in Johnson's $q$-Bell polynomial.
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spellingShingle An area-bounce exchanging bijection on a large subset of Dyck paths
Ayyer, Arvind
Sundaravaradan, Naren
Combinatorics
05A19, 05A15, 05A05
It is a longstanding open problem to find a bijection exchanging area and bounce statistics on Dyck paths. We settle this problem for an exponentially large subset of Dyck paths via an explicit bijection. Moreover, we prove that this bijection is natural by showing that it maps what we call bounce-minimal paths to area-minimal paths. As a consequence of the proof ideas, we show combinatorially that a path with area $a$ and bounce $b$ exists if and only if a path with area $b$ and bounce $a$ exists. We finally show that the number of distinct values of the sum of the area and bounce statistics is the number of nonzero coefficients in Johnson's $q$-Bell polynomial.
title An area-bounce exchanging bijection on a large subset of Dyck paths
topic Combinatorics
05A19, 05A15, 05A05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14668