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On k-neighbor separated permutations

Combinatorics 2017-11-22 v1

Abstract

Two permutations of [n]={1,2n}[n]=\{1,2 \ldots n\} are \textit{kk-neighbor separated} if there are two elements that are neighbors in one of the permutations and that are separated by exactly k2k-2 other elements in the other permutation. Let the maximal number of pairwise kk-neighbor separated permutations of [n][n] be denoted by P(n,k)P(n,k). In a previous paper, the authors have determined P(n,3)P(n,3) for every nn, answering a question of K\"orner, Messuti and Simonyi affirmatively. In this paper we prove that for every fixed positive integer \ell , P(n,2+1)=2no(n).P(n,2^\ell+1) = 2^{n-o(n)}. We conjecture that for every fixed even kk, P(n,k)=2no(n)P(n,k)=2^{n-o(n)}. We also show that this conjecture is asymptotically true in the following sense limklimnP(n,k)n=2.\lim_{k \rightarrow \infty} \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \sqrt[n]{P(n,k)}=2. Finally, we show that for even nn, P(n,n)=3n/2P(n,n)= 3n/2.

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@article{arxiv.1711.07524,
  title  = {On k-neighbor separated permutations},
  author = {István Kovács and Daniel Soltész},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.07524},
  year   = {2017}
}
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