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Auteurs principaux: Harris, Pamela E., Kara, Selvi, McNicholas, Erin, Nyman, Kathryn, Yin, Mei
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20770
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author Harris, Pamela E.
Kara, Selvi
McNicholas, Erin
Nyman, Kathryn
Yin, Mei
author_facet Harris, Pamela E.
Kara, Selvi
McNicholas, Erin
Nyman, Kathryn
Yin, Mei
contents We recall that a parking function of length $n+1$ is said to be prime if removing any instance of 1 yields a parking function of length $n$. In this article, we study prime parking functions from multiple lenses. We derive an explicit formula for the average value of the total displacement of prime parking functions. We present a formula for the displacement-enumerator of prime parking functions that involves a sum over Łukasiewicz paths. We describe the one-to-one correspondence between parking functions and labeledŁukasiewicz paths via Dyck paths. We introduce the concept of $\ell$-forward differences and use this as a vehicle for examining ties, ascents, and descents in prime parking functions. We establish a link between Schur functions corresponding to the partition $(i,1^{n-i})$ and fundamental quasisymmetric functions indexed by prime parking function tie sets of size $n-i.$
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spellingShingle On statistics of prime parking functions, Łukasiewicz paths, and quasisymmetric functions
Harris, Pamela E.
Kara, Selvi
McNicholas, Erin
Nyman, Kathryn
Yin, Mei
Combinatorics
05A05, 05A15, 05A19, 60C05
We recall that a parking function of length $n+1$ is said to be prime if removing any instance of 1 yields a parking function of length $n$. In this article, we study prime parking functions from multiple lenses. We derive an explicit formula for the average value of the total displacement of prime parking functions. We present a formula for the displacement-enumerator of prime parking functions that involves a sum over Łukasiewicz paths. We describe the one-to-one correspondence between parking functions and labeledŁukasiewicz paths via Dyck paths. We introduce the concept of $\ell$-forward differences and use this as a vehicle for examining ties, ascents, and descents in prime parking functions. We establish a link between Schur functions corresponding to the partition $(i,1^{n-i})$ and fundamental quasisymmetric functions indexed by prime parking function tie sets of size $n-i.$
title On statistics of prime parking functions, Łukasiewicz paths, and quasisymmetric functions
topic Combinatorics
05A05, 05A15, 05A19, 60C05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20770