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Inspired by the recent work of Chen and Fu on the e-positivity of trivariate second-order Eulerian polynomials, we show the e-positivity of a family of multivariate k-th order Eulerian polynomials. A relationship between the coefficients of this e-positive expansion and second-order Eulerian numbers is established. Moreover, we present a grammatical proof of the fact that the joint distribution of the ascent, descent and j-plateau statistics over k-Stirling permutations are symmetric distribution. By using symmetric transformation of grammars, a symmetric expansion of trivariate Schett polynomial is also established.
Ma-Ma-Yeh made a beautiful observation that a change of the grammar of Dumont instantly leads to the $gamma$-positivity of the Eulearian polynomials. We notice that the transformed grammar bears a striking resemblance to the grammar for 0-1-2 increasing trees also due to Dumont. The appearance of the factor of two fits perfectly in a grammatical labeling of 0-1-2 increasing plane trees. Furthermore, the grammatical calculus is instrumental to the computation of the generating functions. This approach can be adapted to study the $e$-positivity of the trivariate second-order Eulerian polynomials introduced by Janson, in connection with the joint distribution of the numbers of ascents, descents and plateaux over Stirling permutations.
This paper is concerned with multivariate refinements of the gamma-positivity of Eulerian polynomials by using the succession and fixed point statistics. Properties of the enumerative polynomials for permutations, signed permutations and derangements, including generating functions and gamma-positivity are studied, which generalize and unify earlier results of Athanasiadis, Brenti, Chow, Petersen, Roselle, Stembridge, Shin and Zeng. In particular, we derive a formula expressing the joint distribution of excedance number and negative number statistics over the type B derangements in terms of the derangement polynomials.
Recently, Nunge studied Eulerian polynomials on segmented permutations, namely emph{generalized Eulerian polynomials}, and further asked whether their coefficients form unimodal sequences. In this paper, we prove the stability of the generalized Eulerian polynomials and hence confirm Nunges conjecture. Our proof is based on Brandens stable multivariate Eulerian polynomials. By acting on Brandens polynomials with a stability-preserving linear operator, we get a multivariate refinement of the generalized Eulerian polynomials. To prove Nunges conjecture, we also develop a general approach to obtain generalized Sturm sequences from bivariate stable polynomials.
We provide combinatorial interpretation for the $gamma$-coefficients of the basic Eulerian polynomials that enumerate permutations by the excedance statistic and the major index as well as the corresponding $gamma$-coefficients for derangements. Our results refine the classical $gamma$-positivity results for the Eulerian polynomials and the derangement polynomials. The main tools are Brandens modified Foata--Strehl action on permutations and the recent triple statistic (des, rix,aid) equidistibuted with (exc, fix, maj).
In this paper, we give a type B analogue of the 1/k-Eulerian polynomials. Properties of this kind of polynomials, including combinatorial interpretations, recurrence relations and gamma-positivity are studied. In particular, we show that the 1/k-Eulerian polynomials of type B are gamma-positive when $k>0$. Moreover, we obtain the corresponding results for derangements of type B. We show that a type B 1/k-derangement polynomials $d_n^B(x;k)$ are bi-gamma-positive when $kgeq 1/2$. In particular, we get a symmetric decomposition of $d_n^B(x;1/2)$ in terms of the classical derangement polynomials.