Enumerations of Permutations by Circular Descent Sets

Abstract

The circular descent of a permutation $\sigma$ is a set $\{ \sigma(i) \mid \sigma(i) \gt \sigma(i+1) \}$. In this paper, we focus on the enumerations of permutations by the circular descent set. Let $\operatorname{cdes}_n(S)$ be the number of permutations of length $n$ which have the circular descent set $S$. We derive the explicit formula for $\operatorname{cdes}_n(S)$. We describe a class of generating binary trees $T_k$ with weights. We find that the number of permutations in the set $\operatorname{CDES}_n(S)$ corresponds to the weights of $T_k$. As a application of the main results in this paper, we also give the enumeration of permutation tableaux according to their shape.