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Lower bound on the size of a quasirandom forcing set of permutations

Combinatorics 2021-10-15 v1

Abstract

A set SS of permutations is forcing if for any sequence {Πi}iN\{\Pi_i\}_{i \in \mathbb{N}} of permutations where the density d(π,Πi)d(\pi,\Pi_i) converges to 1π!\frac{1}{|\pi|!} for every permutation πS\pi \in S, it holds that {Πi}iN\{\Pi_i\}_{i \in \mathbb{N}} is quasirandom. Graham asked whether there exists an integer kk such that the set of all permutations of order kk is forcing; this has been shown to be true for any k4k\ge 4. In particular, the set of all twenty-four permutations of order 44 is forcing. We provide the first non-trivial lower bound on the size of a forcing set of permutations: every forcing set of permutations (with arbitrary orders) contains at least four permutations.

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@article{arxiv.2011.09434,
  title  = {Lower bound on the size of a quasirandom forcing set of permutations},
  author = {Martin Kurecka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.09434},
  year   = {2021}
}