Avoiding maximal parabolic subgroups of S_kArticle
Authors: Toufik Mansour 1,2; Alek Vainshtein 1,2
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Toufik Mansour;Alek Vainshtein
1 Department of Computer Science [Haifa]
2 Department of Mathematics [Haïfa]
We find an explicit expression for the generating function of the number of permutations in S_n avoiding a subgroup of S_k generated by all but one simple transpositions. The generating function turns out to be rational, and its denominator is a rook polynomial for a rectangular board.