Steingrímsson's Euler–Mahonian conjecture for ordered set partitions

Let OPnk{\cal OP}_n^k be the set of ordered kk-partitions of [n][n], and let bmaj\mathop{\rm bmaj} and binv\mathop{\rm binv} be the block-major index and block-inversion statistics. Let mak\mathop{\rm mak}, mak\mathop{\rm mak}{}', lmak\mathop{\rm lmak}{}' and lmak\mathop{\rm lmak} be the four statistics from the preceding definition. A statistic on OPnk{\cal OP}_n^k is Euler–Mahonian when its generating function is [k]q!Sq(n,k)[k]_q!S_q(n,k). Steingrímsson's conjecture. Each of the following eight statistics is Euler–Mahonian:

mak+bmaj,mak+bmaj,lmak+bmaj,lmak+bmaj,\mathop{\rm mak}+\mathop{\rm bmaj},\quad \mathop{\rm mak}{}'+\mathop{\rm bmaj},\quad \mathop{\rm lmak}{}'+\mathop{\rm bmaj},\quad \mathop{\rm lmak}+\mathop{\rm bmaj}, mak+binv,mak+binv,lmak+binv,lmak+binv.\mathop{\rm mak}+\mathop{\rm binv},\quad \mathop{\rm mak}{}'+\mathop{\rm binv},\quad \mathop{\rm lmak}{}'+\mathop{\rm binv},\quad \mathop{\rm lmak}+\mathop{\rm binv}.

The claim proposes Euler–Mahonian extensions of q-Stirling statistics to ordered set partitions; the supplied text gives no evidence that it has been proved or disproved.

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Zeng jiang and Ksavrelof gerald, “Nouvelles statistiques de partitions pour les q-nombres de Stirling de seconde espece”, arXiv:math/0111059 (2001).

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