Combinatorics of geometrically distributed random variables: new q -tangent and q -secant numbers

Helmut Prodinger

International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2000, vol. 24, 1-14

Abstract:

Up-down permutations are counted by tangent (respectively, secant) numbers. Considering words instead, where the letters are produced by independent geometric distributions, there are several ways of introducing this concept; in the limit they all coincide with the classical version. In this way, we get some new q -tangent and q -secant functions. Some of them also have nice continued fraction expansions; in one particular case, we could not find a proof for it. Divisibility results à la Andrews, Foata, Gessel are also discussed.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1155/S0161171200004439

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