English

Refined enumeration of permutations sorted with two stacks and a D_8-symmetry

Combinatorics 2012-10-24 v2

Abstract

We study permutations that are sorted by operators of the form SαS\mathbf{S} \circ \alpha \circ \mathbf{S}, where S\mathbf{S} is the usual stack sorting operator introduced by D. Knuth and α\alpha is any D8D_8-symmetry obtained combining the classical reverse, complement and inverse operations. Such permutations can be characterized by excluded (generalized) patterns. Some conjectures about the enumeration of these permutations, refined with numerous classical statistics, have been proposed by A. Claesson, M. Dukes and E. Steingr\'imsson. We prove these conjectures, and enrich one of them with a few more statistics. The proofs mostly rely on generating trees techniques, and on a recent bijection of S. Giraudo between Baxter and twisted Baxter permutations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1210.5967,
  title  = {Refined enumeration of permutations sorted with two stacks and a D_8-symmetry},
  author = {Mathilde Bouvel and Olivier Guibert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5967},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Version 2 is an extended abstract of 12 pages (including referee corrections) but with fewer results than the full paper. For the full paper (26 pages, 13 figures) see Version 1. 24th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC'12), Nagoya, Japan (2012)