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Weights of permutations were originally introduced by Dugan, Glennon, Gunnells, and Steingr\'imsson (Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 164:24-49, 2019) in their study of the combinatorics of tiered trees. Given a permutation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Aman Agrawal , Caroline Choi , Nathan Sun

Let I_n(\pi) denote the number of involutions in the symmetric group S_n which avoid the permutation \pi. We say that two permutations \alpha,\beta\in\S{j} may be exchanged if for every n, k, and ordering \tau of j+1,...,k, we have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aaron D. Jaggard

An involution is a bijection that is its own inverse. Given a permutation $\sigma$ of $[n],$ let $\mathsf{invol}(\sigma)$ denote the number of ways $\sigma$ can be expressed as a composition of two involutions of $[n].$ We prove that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Charles Burnette

We study the problem of counting alternating permutations avoiding collections of permutation patterns including 132. We construct a bijection between the set S_n(132) of 132-avoiding permutations and the set A_{2n + 1}(132) of alternating,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Joel Brewster Lewis

Inversion sequences are integer sequences $e=e_{1}e_{2}\dots e_{n}$ such that $0\leq e_{i}<i$ for each $i$. The study of patterns in inversion sequences was initiated by Corteel--Martinez--Savage--Weselcouch and Mansour--Shattuck in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Juan S. Auli , Sergi Elizalde

The number of 123-avoiding permutation on $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ with a fixed leading terms is counted by the ballot numbers. The same holds for $132$-avoiding permutations. These results were proved by Miner and Pak using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Ömer Eğecioğlu , Collier Gaiser , Mei Yin

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

We show that for any permutation $\pi$ there exists an integer $k_{\pi}$ such that every permutation avoiding $\pi$ as a pattern is a product of at most $k_{\pi}$ separable permutations. In other words, every strict class $\mathcal C$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Édouard Bonnet , Romain Bourneuf , Colin Geniet , Stéphan Thomassé

In 2019, B\'ona and Smith introduced the notion of strong pattern avoidance, saying that a permutation $\pi$ strongly avoids a pattern $\sigma$ if $\pi$ and $\pi^2$ both avoid $\sigma$. Recently, Archer and Geary generalized the idea of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Robin D. P. Zhou , Yongchun Zang

\noindent In our contribution to this volume we deal with \emph{discrete} symmetries: these are symmetries based upon groups with a discrete set of elements (generally a set of elements that can be enumerated by the positive integers). In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. R. D. French , D. P. Rickles

Egge conjectured that permutations avoiding the set of patterns $\{2143,3142,\tau\}$, where $\tau\in\{246135,254613,263514,524361,546132\}$, are enumerated by the large Schr\"oder numbers. Consequently, $\{2143,3142,\tau\}$ with $\tau$ as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Jonathan Bloom , Alex Burstein

A signed permutation \pi = \pi_1\pi_2 \ldots \pi_n in the hyperoctahedral group B_n is a word such that each \pi_i \in {-n, \ldots, -1, 1, \ldots, n} and {|\pi_1|, |\pi_2|, \ldots, |\pi_n|} = {1,2,\ldots,n}. An index i is a peak of \pi if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-02 Francis Castro-Velez , Alexander Diaz-Lopez , Rosa Orellana , Jose Pastrana , Rita Zevallos

Two permutations in a class are Wilf-equivalent if, for every size, $n$, the number of permutations in the class of size $n$ containing each of them is the same. Those infinite classes that have only one equivalence class in each size for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Michael Albert , Jinge Li

The main theme of this paper is the enumeration of the occurrence of a pattern in words and permutations. We mainly focus on asymptotic properties of the sequence $f_r^v(k,n),$ the number of $n$-array $k$-ary words that contain a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Toufik Mansour , Reza Rastegar , Alexander Roitershtein

We extend and generalize many of the enumerative results concerning West's stack-sorting map $s$. First, we prove a useful theorem that allows one to efficiently compute $|s^{-1}(\pi)|$ for any permutation $\pi$, answering a question of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Colin Defant

We introduce consecutive-pattern-avoiding stack-sorting maps $\text{SC}_\sigma$, which are natural generalizations of West's stack-sorting map $s$ and natural analogues of the classical-pattern-avoiding stack-sorting maps $s_\sigma$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Colin Defant , Kai Zheng

In their paper \cite{DokosDwyer:Permutat12}, Dokos et al. conjecture that the major index statistic is equidistributed among 1423-avoiding, 2413-avoiding, and 2314-avoiding permutations. In this paper we confirm this conjecture by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Jonathan Bloom

We study permutations in $S_n$ that simultaneously avoid the pattern $132$ and satisfy the adjacency bound $|\pi_{i+1} - \pi_i| \leq m$ for all $i$, denoting their number by $A_n^{(m)}$. This combination of a global pattern restriction and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Nathaniel Nadler

We give some new Wilf equivalences for signed patterns which allow the complete classification of signed patterns of lengths three and four. The problem is considered for pattern avoidance by general as well as involutive signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. M. B. Dukes , T. Mansour , A. Reifegerste

Given a subset $S\subseteq\mathbb{P}$, let $\Pa(S;n)$ be the number of permutations in the symmetric group of ${1,2,...,n}$ that have peak set $S$. We prove a recent conjecture due to Billey, Burdzy and Sagan, which determines the sets that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Anisse Kasraoui