English

Pattern avoidance in non-crossing and non-nesting permutations

Combinatorics 2025-05-12 v2

Abstract

Non-crossing and non-nesting permutations are variations of the well-known Stirling permutations. A permutation π\pi on {1,1,2,2,,n,n}\{1,1,2,2,\ldots, n,n\} is called non-crossing if it avoids the crossing patterns {1212,2121}\{1212,2121\} and is called non-nesting if it avoids the nesting patterns {1221,2112}.\{1221,2112\}. Pattern avoidance in these permutations has been considered in recent years, but it has remained open to enumerate the non-crossing and non-nesting permutations that avoid a single pattern of length 3. In this paper, we provide generating functions for those non-crossing and non-nesting permutations that avoid the pattern 231 (and, by symmetry, the patterns 132, 213, or 312).

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@article{arxiv.2502.13309,
  title  = {Pattern avoidance in non-crossing and non-nesting permutations},
  author = {Kassie Archer and Robert P. Laudone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13309},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, v2: corrected typo in Theorem 3.4

R2 v1 2026-06-28T21:49:26.893Z