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A Complete Enumeration of Ballot Permutations Avoiding Sets of Small Patterns

Combinatorics 2024-04-25 v2

Abstract

Permutations whose prefixes contain at least as many ascents as descents are called ballot permutations. Lin, Wang, and Zhao have previously enumerated ballot permutations avoiding small patterns and have proposed the problem of enumerating ballot permutations avoiding a pair of permutations of length 33. We completely enumerate ballot permutations avoiding two patterns of length 33 and we relate these avoidance classes with their respective recurrence relations and formulas, which leads to an interesting bijection between ballot permutations avoiding 132132 and 312312 with left factors of Dyck paths. In addition, we also conclude the Wilf-classification of ballot permutations avoiding sets of two patterns of length 33, and we then extend our results to completely enumerate ballot permutations avoiding three patterns of length 33.

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@article{arxiv.2209.06087,
  title  = {A Complete Enumeration of Ballot Permutations Avoiding Sets of Small Patterns},
  author = {Nathan Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06087},
  year   = {2024}
}