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The Shape of Random Pattern-Avoiding Permutations

Combinatorics 2013-12-02 v3 Probability

Abstract

We initiate the study of limit shapes for random permutations avoiding a given pattern. Specifically, for patterns of length 3, we obtain delicate results on the asymptotics of distributions of positions of numbers in the permutations. We view the permutations as 0-1 matrices to describe the resulting asymptotics geometrically. We then apply our results to obtain a number of results on distributions of permutation statistics.

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@article{arxiv.1303.7313,
  title  = {The Shape of Random Pattern-Avoiding Permutations},
  author = {Sam Miner and Igor Pak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.7313},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

38 pages, 14 figures. Fixed typos, added references and acknowledgments

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