Speaker: 

Gene Kim

Institution: 

USC

Time: 

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 306

The distribution of descents in certain conjugacy classes of S_n have been previously studied, and it is shown that its moments have interesting properties. This paper provides a bijective proof of the symmetry of the descents and major indices of matchings (also known as fixed point free involutions) and uses a generating function approach to prove an asymptotic normality theorem for the number of descents in matchings.