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In [Kit1] Kitaev discussed simultaneous avoidance of two 3-patterns with no internal dashes, that is, where the patterns correspond to contiguous subwords in a permutation. In three essentially different cases, the numbers of such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Mansour , S. Kitaev

We introduce new natural generalizations of the classical descent and inversion statistics for permutations, called width-$k$ descents and width-$k$ inversions. These variations induce generalizations of the excedance and major statistics,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Robert Davis

This paper examines the classical matching distribution arising in the "problem of coincidences". We generalise the classical matching distribution with a preliminary round of allocation where items are correctly matched with some fixed…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2021-12-24 Ben O'Neill

A rectangulation is a tiling of a rectangle by a finite number of rectangles. The rectangulation is called generic if no four of its rectangles share a single corner. We initiate the enumeration of generic rectangulations up to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Nathan Reading

Vincular and covincular patterns are generalizations of classical patterns allowing restrictions on the indices and values of the occurrences in a permutation. In this paper we study the integer sequences arising as the enumerations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Christian Bean , Anders Claesson , Henning Ulfarsson

Permutons are probability measures on the unit square with uniform marginals that provide a natural way to describe limits of permutations. We are interested in the permuton limits for permutations sampled uniformly from certain…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Kaitlyn Hohmeier , Erik Slivken

We prove that deciding whether a given input word contains as subsequence every possible permutation of integers $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ is coNP-complete. The coNP-completeness holds even when given the guarantee that the input word contains as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Przemysław Uznański

Packing density is a permutation occurrence statistic which describes the maximal number of permutations of a given type that can occur in another permutation. In this article we focus on containment of sets of permutations. Although this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Burstein , Peter Hästö

Permutation tableaux are combinatorial objects related with permutations and various statistics on them. They appeared in connection with total positivity in Grassmannians, and stationary probabilities in a PASEP model. In particular they…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Sylvie Corteel , Matthieu Josuat-Vergès , Jang Soo Kim

We present a new approach to the problem of enumerating permutations of length n that avoid a fixed consecutive pattern of length m. We use this idea to give explicit upper and lower bounds on the number of permutations avoiding a pattern…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-29 Guillem Perarnau

Two mesh patterns are coincident if they are avoided by the same set of permutations. In this paper, we provide necessary conditions for this coincidence, which include having the same set of enclosed diagonals. This condition is sufficient…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Anders Claesson , Bridget Eileen Tenner , Henning Ulfarsson

We uncover a connection between two seemingly unrelated notions: lettericity, from structural graph theory, and geometric griddability, from the world of permutation patterns. Both of these notions capture important structural properties of…

We study proportions of consecutive occurrences of permutations of a given size. Specifically, the feasible limits of such proportions on large permutations form a region, called feasible region. We show that this feasible region is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Jacopo Borga , Raul Penaguiao

We study groups generated by sets of pattern avoiding permutations. In the first part of the paper we prove some general results concerning the structure of such groups. In the second part we carry out a case-by-case analysis of groups…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Marilena Barnabei , Niccolò Castronuovo , Matteo Silimbani

Let P be a poset and let P* be the set of all finite length words over P. Generalized subword order is the partial order on P* obtained by letting u \leq w if and only if there is a subword u' of w having the same length as u such that each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Peter R. W. McNamara , Bruce E. Sagan

Permutation patterns and pattern avoidance are central, well-studied concepts in combinatorics and computer science. Given two permutations $\tau$ and $\pi$, the pattern matching problem (PPM) asks whether $\tau$ contains $\pi$. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Benjamin Aram Berendsohn

In this paper, we reveal an intriguing relationship between two seemingly unrelated notions: letter graphs and geometric grid classes of permutations. An important property common for both of them is well-quasi-orderability, implying, in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Bogdan Alecu , Vadim Lozin , Dominique de Werra , Viktor Zamaraev

Permutations that avoid given patterns have been studied in great depth for their connections to other fields of mathematics, computer science, and biology. From a combinatorial perspective, permutation patterns have served as a unifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Sylvie Corteel , Megan A. Martinez , Carla D. Savage , Michael Weselcouch

A composition of a nonnegative integer (n) is a sequence of positive integers whose sum is (n). A composition is palindromic if it is unchanged when its terms are read in reverse order. We provide a generating function for the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergey Kitaev , Tyrrell B. McAllister , T. Kyle Petersen

Pattern avoiding machines were recently introduced by Claesson, Ferrari and the current author to gain a better understanding of the classical $2$-stacksort problem. In this paper we generalize these devices by allowing permutations with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Giulio Cerbai