Journal of Combinatorics

Volume 8 (2017)

Number 1

Moments of matching statistics

Pages: 1 – 27

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/JOC.2017.v8.n1.a1

Authors

Niraj Khare (Carnegie Mellon University, Doha, Qatar)

Rudolph Lorentz (Texas A&M University, Doha, Qatar)

Catherine H. Yan (Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Tx., U.S.A.)

Abstract

We show that for a large family of combinatorial statistics on perfect matchings, the moments can be expressed as a linear combination of double factorials with constant coefficients. This gives a stronger analogous result of Chern, Diaconis, Kane and Rhoades on statistics of set partitions, in which case the moments can be expressed as linear combinations of shifted Bell numbers, but with polynomial coefficients.

Keywords

matching, statistics

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

05A15, 05A18, 62J05

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Published 2 December 2016