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A stack and a pop stack in series

Combinatorics 2013-03-07 v1

Abstract

We study sorting machines consisting of a stack and a pop stack in series, with or without a queue between them. While there are, a priori, four such machines, only two are essentially different: a pop stack followed directly by a stack, and a pop stack followed by a queue and then by a stack. In the former case, we obtain complete answers for the basis and enumeration of the sortable permutations. In the latter case, we present several conjectures.

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@article{arxiv.1303.1395,
  title  = {A stack and a pop stack in series},
  author = {Rebecca Smith and Vincent Vatter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.1395},
  year   = {2013}
}
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