Random Permutation Statistics - Moments of Fixed Points

Moments of Fixed Points

The mixed GF of the set of permutations by the number of fixed points is

g(z, u) = \exp\left( -z + uz + \log \frac{1}{1-z}\right) = \frac{1}{1-z} \exp ( -z + uz ).

Let the random variable X be the number of fixed points of a random permutation. Using Stirling numbers of the second kind, we have the following formula for the mth moment of X:

E(X^m) = E\left( \sum_{k=0}^m \left\{ \begin{matrix} m \\ k \end{matrix} \right\} (X)_k \right) = \sum_{k=0}^m \left\{ \begin{matrix} m \\ k \end{matrix} \right\} E((X)_k),

where is a falling factorial. Using, we have

E((X)_k) = \left(\frac{d}{du}\right)^k g(z, u) \Bigg|_{u=1} = \frac{z^k}{1-z} \exp ( -z + uz ) \Bigg|_{u=1} = \frac{z^k}{1-z},

which is zero when, and one otherwise. Hence only terms with contribute to the sum. This yields

E(X^m) = \sum_{k=0}^n \left\{ \begin{matrix} m \\ k \end{matrix} \right\}.

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