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The runsort permuton

Combinatorics 2021-06-29 v1

Abstract

Suppose we choose a permutation π\pi uniformly at random from SnS_n. Let runsort(π)\mathsf{runsort}(\pi) be the permutation obtained by sorting the ascending runs of π\pi into lexicographic order. Alexandersson and Nabawanda recently asked if the plot of runsort(π)\mathsf{runsort}(\pi), when scaled to the unit square [0,1]2[0,1]^2, converges to a limit shape as nn\to\infty. We answer their question by showing that the measures corresponding to the scaled plots of these permutations runsort(π)\mathsf{runsort}(\pi) converge with probability 11 to a permuton (limiting probability distribution) that we describe explicitly. In particular, the support of this permuton is {(x,y)[0,1]2:xye1y}\{(x,y)\in[0,1]^2:x\leq ye^{1-y}\}.

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@article{arxiv.2106.14762,
  title  = {The runsort permuton},
  author = {Noga Alon and Colin Defant and Noah Kravitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.14762},
  year   = {2021}
}