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On $P$-crucial square-free permutations

Combinatorics 2025-08-12 v1

Abstract

A permutation is square-free if it does not contain two consecutive factors of length two or more that are order-isomorphic. A square-free permutation of length nn is PP-crucial, where PP is a subset of {0,1,,n}\{0,1,\ldots,n\}, if any of its extensions in any position from the set PP contains a square. In 2015, Gent, Kitaev, Konovalov, Linton and Nightingale initiated the study of PP-crucial square-free permutations. In particular, they showed that {0,1,n1,n}\{0,1,n-1,n\}-crucial square-free permutations of length nn, where n22n\leq 22, exist if and only if n=17n=17 or n=21n=21. In this work, we prove that for any m2m\geq 2 there exists a {0,1,8m+4,8m+5}\{0,1,8m+4,8m+5\}-crucial square-free permutation of length 8m+58m+5.

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@article{arxiv.2508.06907,
  title  = {On $P$-crucial square-free permutations},
  author = {Alexandr Valyuzhenich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.06907},
  year   = {2025}
}
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