Abstract
Given a partition ${\lambda}=({\lambda}_1,{\lambda}_2,{\ldots},{\lambda}_l)$ of a positive integer n, let Tab(${\lambda}$, k) be the set of all tabloids of shape ${\lambda}$ whose weights range over the set of all k-compositions of n and ${\mathcal{OP}}^k_{\lambda}_{rev}$ the set of all ordered partitions into k blocks of the multiset $\{1^{{\lambda}_l}2^{{\lambda}_{l-1}}{\cdots}l^{{\lambda}_1}\}$. In [2], Butler introduced an inversion-like statistic on Tab(${\lambda}$, k) to show that the rank-selected $M{\ddot{o}}bius$ invariant arising from the subgroup lattice of a finite abelian p-group of type ${\lambda}$ has nonnegative coefficients as a polynomial in p. In this paper, we introduce an inversion-like statistic on the set of ordered partitions of a multiset and construct an inversion-preserving bijection between Tab(${\lambda}$, k) and ${\mathcal{OP}}^k_{\hat{\lambda}}$. When k = 2, we also introduce a major-like statistic on Tab(${\lambda}$, 2) and study its connection to the inversion statistic due to Butler.