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On the longest common subsequence of independent random permutations invariant under conjugation

Probability 2025-04-18 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Bukh and Zhou conjectured that the expectation of the length of the longest common subsequence of two i.i.d random permutations of size nn is greater than n\sqrt{n}. We prove in this paper that there exists a universal constant n1n_1 such that their conjecture is satisfied for any pair of i.i.d random permutations of size greater than n1n_1 with distribution invariant under conjugation. We prove also that asymptotically, this expectation is at least of order 2n2\sqrt{n} which is the asymptotic behaviour of the uniform setting. More generally, in the case where the laws of the two permutations are not necessarily the same, we gibe a lower bound for the expectation. In particular, we prove that if one of the permutations is invariant under conjugation and with a good control of the expectation of the number of its cycles, the limiting fluctuations of the length of the longest common subsequence are of Tracy-Widom type. This result holds independently of the law of the second permutation.

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@article{arxiv.1904.00725,
  title  = {On the longest common subsequence of independent random permutations invariant under conjugation},
  author = {Mohamed Slim Kammoun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00725},
  year   = {2025}
}