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A logical limit law for $231$-avoiding permutations

Combinatorics 2024-04-03 v3 Probability

Abstract

We prove that the class of 231-avoiding permutations satisfies a logical limit law, i.e. that for any first-order sentence Ψ\Psi, in the language of two total orders, the probability pn,Ψp_{n,\Psi} that a uniform random 231-avoiding permutation of size nn satisfies Ψ\Psi admits a limit as nn is large. Moreover, we establish two further results about the behavior and value of pn,Ψp_{n,\Psi}: (i) it is either bounded away from 00, or decays exponentially fast; (ii) the set of possible limits is dense in [0,1][0,1]. Our tools come mainly from analytic combinatorics and singularity analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2210.05537,
  title  = {A logical limit law for $231$-avoiding permutations},
  author = {Michael Albert and Mathilde Bouvel and Valentin Féray and Marc Noy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.05537},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

15 pages; version 3 is the final version, ready for publication in DMTCS

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