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Pattern avoidance in forests of binary shrubs

Combinatorics 2023-06-22 v4

Abstract

We investigate pattern avoidance in permutations satisfying some additional restrictions. These are naturally considered in terms of avoiding patterns in linear extensions of certain forest-like partially ordered sets, which we call binary shrub forests. In this context, we enumerate forests avoiding patterns of length three. In four of the five non-equivalent cases, we present explicit enumerations by exhibiting bijections with certain lattice paths bounded above by the line y=xy=\ell x, for some Q+\ell\in\mathbb{Q}^+, one of these being the celebrated Duchon's club paths with =2/3\ell=2/3. In the remaining case, we use the machinery of analytic combinatorics to determine the minimal polynomial of its generating function, and deduce its growth rate.

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@article{arxiv.1510.08036,
  title  = {Pattern avoidance in forests of binary shrubs},
  author = {David Bevan and Derek Levin and Peter Nugent and Jay Pantone and Lara Pudwell and Manda Riehl and ML Tlachac},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.08036},
  year   = {2023}
}
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