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On k-crossings and k-nestings of permutations

Combinatorics 2011-02-10 v1

Abstract

We introduce k-crossings and k-nestings of permutations. We show that the crossing number and the nesting number of permutations have a symmetric joint distribution. As a corollary, the number of k-noncrossing permutations is equal to the number of k-nonnesting permutations. We also provide some enumerative results for k-noncrossing permutations for some values of k.

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@article{arxiv.0912.0239,
  title  = {On k-crossings and k-nestings of permutations},
  author = {Sophie Burrill and Marni Mishna and Jacob Post},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.0239},
  year   = {2011}
}