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Dyck paths, binary words, and Grassmannian permutations avoiding an increasing pattern

Combinatorics 2023-10-13 v2

Abstract

A permutation is called Grassmannian if it has at most one descent. The study of pattern avoidance in such permutations was initiated by Gil and Tomasko in 2021. We continue this work by studying Grassmannian permutations that avoid an increasing pattern. In particular, we count the Grassmannian permutations of size mm avoiding the identity permutation of size kk, thus solving a conjecture made by Weiner. We also refine our counts to special classes such as odd Grassmannian permutations and Grassmannian involutions. We prove most of our results by relating Grassmannian permutations to Dyck paths and binary words.

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@article{arxiv.2212.13794,
  title  = {Dyck paths, binary words, and Grassmannian permutations avoiding an increasing pattern},
  author = {Krishna Menon and Anurag Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.13794},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Minor changes, to appear in Annals of Combinatorics

R2 v1 2026-06-28T07:54:45.855Z