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Superpermutation matrices

Combinatorics 2019-08-14 v1

Abstract

Superpermutations are words over a finite alphabet containing every permutation as a factor. Finding the minimal length of a superpermutation is still an open problem. In this article, we introduce superpermutations matrices. We establish a link between the minimal size of such a matrix and the minimal length of a universal word for the quotient of the symmetric group SnS_n by an equivalence relation. We will then give non-trivial bounds on the minimal length of such a word and prove that the limit of their ratio when nn approaches infinity is 2.

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@article{arxiv.1908.04708,
  title  = {Superpermutation matrices},
  author = {Guillaume Dumas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.04708},
  year   = {2019}
}

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18 pages