The feasible regions for consecutive patterns of pattern-avoiding permutations
Abstract
We study the feasible region for consecutive patterns of pattern-avoiding permutations. More precisely, given a family of permutations avoiding a fixed set of patterns, we consider the limit of proportions of consecutive patterns on large permutations of . These limits form a region, which we call the consecutive patterns feasible region for . We determine the dimension of the consecutive patterns feasible region for all families closed either for the direct sum or the skew sum. These families include for instance the ones avoiding a single pattern and all substitution-closed classes. We further show that these regions are always convex and we conjecture that they are always polytopes. We prove this conjecture when is the family of -avoiding permutations, with either of size three or a monotone pattern. Furthermore, in these cases we give a full description of the vertices of these polytopes via cycle polytopes. Along the way, we discuss connections of this work with the problem of packing patterns in pattern-avoiding permutations and to the study of local limits for pattern-avoiding permutations.
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@article{arxiv.2010.06273,
title = {The feasible regions for consecutive patterns of pattern-avoiding permutations},
author = {Jacopo Borga and Raul Penaguiao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.06273},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
New version including referee's corrections, accepted for publication in Discrete Mathematics