%0 Journal Article
%T Generalized Riffle Shuffles and Quasisymmetric Functions
%A Richard P. Stanley
%J Mathematics
%D 1999
%I arXiv
%X This paper concerns a probability distribution on the symmetric group generalizing the riffle shuffle of Bayer, Diaconis, and others. There are close connections with the theory of quasisymmetric and symmetric functions.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912025v4