On Longest Increasing Subsequences in Words in Which All Multiplicities are Equal
Ferenc Balogh
Department of Mathematics
John Abbott College
21275 Lakeshore Road
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, PQ H9X 3L9
Canada
Abstract:
Gessel's famous Bessel determinant formula gives the generating function
of the number of permutations without increasing subsequences of a
given length. Ekhad and Zeilberger proposed the challenge of finding
a suitable generalization for permutations of multisets in which all
multiplicities are equal, that is, to count words of length rn
from an alphabet consisting of n letters in which each letter
appears exactly r times and which have no increasing subsequences
of length d.
In this
paper we present such a generating function expressible as a multiple
integral of the product of a Gessel-type Toeplitz determinant with the
exponentiated cycle index polynomial of the symmetric group on r
elements.
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(Concerned with sequences
A220097
A266734
A266735
A266737
A266741
A267479
A267480.)
Received October 18 2015; revised versions received June 15 2023; June 27 2023.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences,
July 24 2023.
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