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Enumerating coprime permutations

Number Theory 2022-03-30 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Define a permutation σ\sigma to be coprime if gcd(m,σ(m))=1\gcd(m,\sigma(m)) = 1 for m[n]m\in[n]. In this note, proving a recent conjecture of Pomerance, we prove that the number of coprime permutations on [n][n] is n!(c+o(1))nn!\cdot (c+o(1))^n where c=p prime (p1)2(11/p)p(p2)(12/p).c = \prod_{p\text{ prime }}\frac{(p-1)^{2(1-1/p)}}{p\cdot (p-2)^{(1-2/p)}}. The techniques involve entropy maximization for the upper bound, and a mixture of number-theoretic bounds, permanent estimates, and the absorbing method for the lower bound.

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@article{arxiv.2203.06268,
  title  = {Enumerating coprime permutations},
  author = {Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.06268},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

11 pages; simplified proof with improved quantitative aspects