Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 91B.5 (2024), 12 pp.

Jesse Campion Loth, Michael Levet, Kevin Liu, Sheila Sundaram and Mei Yin

Colored Permutation Statistics by Conjugacy Class

Abstract. We consider the moments of statistics on conjugacy classes of colored permutation groups Sn,r = ZrSn. We first show that any fixed moment of a statistic coincides on all conjugacy classes when all cycle lengths are sufficiently long. For permutation statistics that can be realized via a process called symmetric extension, we show that for fixed r, this moment on these conjugacy classes is a polynomial in n. Hamaker and Rhoades (arχiv, 2022) established analogous results for the symmetric group as part of their far-reaching representation-theoretic framework. Independently, Campion Loth, Levet, Liu, Stucky, Sundaram, and Yin (arχiv, 2023) arrived at independence and polynomiality results for the symmetric group using instead an elementary combinatorial framework. Our techniques in this paper build on this latter elementary approach. Finally, we extend the work of Fulman (J. Comb. Theory Ser. A, 1998), to establish a central limit theorem for descents in conjugacy classes of the hyperoctahedral group with sufficiently long cycles.


Received: November 15, 2023. Accepted: February 15, 2024. Final version: April 1, 2024.

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