Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4654470 European Journal of Combinatorics 2006 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

The bibasic trigonometric functions  , recently introduced by Foata and Han, give rise to the p,qp,q-tangent numbers   and the p,qp,q-secant numbers  . Foata and Han proposed a combinatorial interpretation of these bibasic coefficients as enumerations of alternating permutations by the bi-statistic (inv1,inv2). Under this interpretation, the symmetry of the bibasic trigonometric functions yields a combinatorial identity. A combinatorial proof of the identity is desired. For permutations of even order, this has already been given by Foata and Han. Here we give a proof for permutations of odd order.

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