Abstract:
A direct saddle-point analysis (without relying on any modular forms, identities or functional equations) is developed to establish the asymptotics of Fishburn matrices and a large number of other variants with a similar sum-of-finite-product form for their (formal) general functions. In addition to solving a few conjectures, the application of our saddle-point approach to the distributional aspects of statistics on Fishburn matrices is also examined with many new limit theorems characterized, representing the first of their kind for such random structures. This talk is based on joint work with Emma Yu Jin.