Baker–Chen–Li–Qian refinement for cyclic V-shaped permutations
Baker–Chen–Li–Qian refinement for cyclic V-shaped permutations
Let be a positive integer. A cyclic V-shaped permutation of is a permutation with a unique local minimum that is also a cycle, and let the minimum occur at position . Consider subsets of having cardinality and whose elements sum to . Baker–Chen–Li–Qian's refinement. The number of cyclic V-shaped permutations of whose minimum is at position equals the number of -element subsets of whose elements sum to . This conjecture refines the known equality between the total number of these cyclic V-shaped permutations and the number of primitive necklaces of length with an odd number of ones, both enumerated by the relevant Möbius-sum formula. The source presents the refinement as a conjecture and gives no resolution.
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Robert Dougherty-Bliss and Sergi Elizalde, “Necklaces, subset sums, and cyclic permutations”, arXiv:2603.15830 (2026).
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