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Sorting a Permutation by block moves

Combinatorics 2008-06-18 v1

Abstract

We prove a lower and an upper bound on the number of block moves necessary to sort a permutation. We put our results in contrast with existing results on sorting by block transpositions, and raise some open questions.

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@article{arxiv.0806.2787,
  title  = {Sorting a Permutation by block moves},
  author = {Miklos Bona and Ryan Flynn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2787},
  year   = {2008}
}

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7 pages

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