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We give an improved algorithm for counting the number of $1324$-avoiding permutations, resulting in 5 further terms of the generating function. We analyse the known coefficients and find compelling evidence that unlike other classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-28 Andrew R Conway , Anthony J Guttmann

Given a permutation $\sg = \sg_1 \ldots \sg_n$ in the symmetric group $S_n$, we say that $\sg_i$ matches the marked mesh pattern $MMP(a,b,c,d)$ in $\sg$ if there are at least $a$ points to the right of $\sg_i$ in $\sg$ which are greater…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Sergey Kitaev , Jeffrey Remmel , Mark Tiefenbruck

We confirm a conjecture of Lara Pudwell and show that permutations of [n] that avoid the barred pattern bar{3}bar{1}542 are counted by OEIS sequence A047970. In fact, we show bijectively that the number of bar{3}bar{1}542 avoiders of length…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-30 David Callan

We initiate a systematic study of pattern avoidance in rectangulations. We give a formal definition of such patterns and investigate rectangulations that avoid $\top$-like patterns - the pattern $\top$ and its rotations. For every $L…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Andrei Asinowski , Michaela A. Polley

Despite the fact that the field of pattern avoiding permutations has been skyrocketing over the last two decades, there are very few exhaustive generating algorithms for such classes of permutations. In this paper we introduce the notions…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Phan Thuan Do , Thi Thu Huong Tran , Vincent Vajnovszki

We give an improved algorithm for counting the number of $1324$-avoiding permutations, resulting in $14$ further terms of the generating function, which is now known for all patterns of length $\le 50$. We re-analyse the generating function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Andrew R. Conway , Anthony J. Guttmann , Paul Zinn-Justin

We introduce and study a new notion of patterns in Stirling and $k$-Stirling permutations, which we call block patterns. We prove a general result which allows us to compute generating functions for the occurrences of various block patterns…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-17 Jeffrey B. Remmel , Andrew Timothy Wilson

We examine the poset $P$ of 132-avoiding $n$-permutations ordered by descents. We show that this poset is the "coarsening" of the well-studied poset $Q$ of noncrossing partitions . In other words, if $x<y$ in $Q$, then $f(y)<f(x)$ in $P$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Miklos Bona

A partition on $[n]$ has a crossing if there exists $i\_1<i\_2<j\_1<j\_2$ such that $i\_1$ and $j\_1$ are in the same block, $i\_2$ and $j\_2$ are in the same block, but $i\_1$ and $i\_2$ are not in the same block. Recently, Chen et al.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-01-23 Mireille Bousquet-Mélou , Guoce Xin

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…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-02 Sam Miner , Igor Pak

We consider avoidance of permutation patterns with designated gap sizes between pairs of consecutive letters. We call the patterns having such constraints distant patterns (DPs) and we show their relation to other pattern notions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Stoyan Dimitrov

For a set of permutations $S\subseteq S_n$, consider the quasisymmetric generating function $$Q(S): = \sum_{w\in S}F_{n, \mathrm{Des}(w)},$$ where $\mathrm{Des}(w) := \{i\mid w(i)> w(i+1)\}$ is the descent set of $w$ and $F_{n,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Tuong Le

In this paper, we find explicit formulas or generating functions for the cardinalities of the sets $S_n(T,\tau)$ of all permutations in $S_n$ that avoid a pattern $\tau\in S_k$ and a set $T$, $|T|\geq 2$, of patterns from $S_3$. The main…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Mansour

Not long ago, Claesson and Mansour proposed some conjectures about the enumeration of the permutations avoiding more than three Babson - Steingr\'\i msson patterns (generalized patterns of type $(1,2)$ or $(2,1)$). The avoidance of one, two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Antonio Bernini , Elisa Pergola

In a recent preprint, Mike Cummings showed that the smooth components of suitably parametrized Springer fibers are in bijection with contracted, fully reduced Pl\"ucker degree-two $\mathfrak{sl}_r$-webs of standard type and that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Jessica Striker , Bridget Eileen Tenner

In this paper we study pattern avoidance in Latin Squares, which gives us a two dimensional analogue of the well studied notion of pattern avoidance in permutations. Our main results include enumerating and characterizing the Latin Squares…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-11 Michael J. Earnest , Samuel C. Gutekunst

It is well known that permutations avoiding any 3-length pattern are enumerated by the Catalan numbers. If the three patterns 123, 132 and 213 are avoided at the same time we obtain a class of permutations enumerated by the Fibonacci…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. Barcucci , A. Bernini , M. Poneti

In this paper, we introduce polynomial time algorithms that generate random 3-noncrossing partitions and 2-regular, 3-noncrossing partitions with uniform probability. A 3-noncrossing partition does not contain any three mutually crossing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-10-15 Jing Qin , Christian M. Reidys

We describe the distribution of the number and location of the fixed points of permu- tations that avoid the pattern 321 via a bijection with rooted plane trees on n + 1 vertices. Using the local limit theorem for Galton-Watson trees, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Christopher Hoffman , Douglas Rizzolo , Erik Slivken

Recently, B\'ona and Smith defined strong pattern avoidance, saying that a permutation $\pi$ strongly avoids a pattern $\tau$ if $\pi$ and $\pi^2$ both avoid $\tau$. They conjectured that for every positive integer $k$, there is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Amanda Burcroff , Colin Defant