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Log-concavity, the Ulam distance and involutions

Combinatorics 2015-02-20 v1

Abstract

We prove that in a large collection of naturally defined sets of permutations of fixed length, the numbers of permutations at Ulam distance k from the identity form a log-concave sequence in k.

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@article{arxiv.1502.05438,
  title  = {Log-concavity, the Ulam distance and involutions},
  author = {Miklós Bóna and Marie-Louise Bruner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05438},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages