May 2022 A central limit theorem for descents of a Mallows permutation and its inverse
Jimmy He
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Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 58(2): 667-694 (May 2022). DOI: 10.1214/21-AIHP1167

Abstract

This paper studies the asymptotic distribution of descents des(w) in a permutation w, and its inverse, distributed according to the Mallows measure. The Mallows measure is a non-uniform probability measure on permutations introduced to study ranked data. Under this measure, permutations are weighted according to the number of inversions they contain, with the weighting controlled by a parameter q. The main results are a Berry–Esseen theorem for des(w)+des(w1) as well as a joint central limit theorem for (des(w),des(w1)) to a bivariate normal with a non-trivial correlation depending on q. The proof uses Stein’s method with size-bias coupling along with a regenerative process associated to the Mallows measure.

Cet article étudie la distribution asymptotique des descentes des(w) dans une permutation w, et son inverse, distribuée suivant la mesure de Mallows. La mesure de Mallows est une probabilité non-uniforme sur les permutations introduite pour étudier les données ordonnées. Sous cette mesure, les permutations sont pondérées suivant le nombre d’inversions qu’elles contiennent, avec des poids contrôlés par un paramètre q. Les résultats principaux consistent en un théorème de Berry–Esseen pour des(w)+des(w1) ainsi qu’un théorème central limite joint pour (des(w),des(w1)) ayant comme limite une loi normale bi-variée avec une corrélation non-triviale dépendant de q. La preuve utilise la méthode de Stein avec des couplages biaisés par la taille, et un processus de renouvellement associé à la mesure de Mallows.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported in part by NSERC. The author would like to thank Persi Diaconis for helpful discussions, Andrea Ottolini for a careful reading of the manuscript, Jim Pitman for pointing out some useful references and suggesting the concentration bounds, and Wenpin Tang for pointing out some useful references.

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Jimmy He. "A central limit theorem for descents of a Mallows permutation and its inverse." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 58 (2) 667 - 694, May 2022. https://doi.org/10.1214/21-AIHP1167

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Received: 18 June 2020; Revised: 4 February 2021; Accepted: 5 March 2021; Published: May 2022
First available in Project Euclid: 15 May 2022

MathSciNet: MR4421604
zbMATH: 1500.60003
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/21-AIHP1167

Subjects:
Primary: 05E16 , 20F55 , 60B15 , 60F05

Keywords: central limit theorem , Descents , Mallows permutations , Stein’s method

Rights: Copyright © 2022 Association des Publications de l’Institut Henri Poincaré

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