On the limiting distribution for the length of the longest alternating sequence in a random permutation
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 13 (2006)

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Recently Richard Stanley initiated a study of the distribution of the length as$_n(w)$ of the longest alternating subsequence in a random permutation $w$ from the symmetric group ${\cal S}_n$. Among other things he found an explicit formula for the generating function (on $n$ and $k$) for Pr$\,$(as$_n(w)\le k)$ and conjectured that the distribution, suitably centered and normalized, tended to a Gaussian with variance 8/45. In this note we present a proof of the conjecture based on the generating function.
DOI : 10.37236/1051
Classification : 05A16
Mots-clés : generating function
Harold Widom. On the limiting distribution for the length of the longest alternating sequence in a random permutation. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 13 (2006). doi: 10.37236/1051
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