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Set partitions avoiding $k$-crossing and $k$-nesting have been extensively studied from the aspects of both combinatorics and mathematical biology. By using the generating tree technique, the obstinate kernel method and Zeilberger's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Sherry H. F. Yan

We consider the set of affine permutations that avoid a fixed permutation pattern. Crites has given a simple characterization for when this set is infinite. We find the generating series for this set using the Coxeter length statistic and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Brant Jones

We enumerate several classes of pattern-avoiding rectangulations. We establish new bijective links with pattern-avoiding permutations, prove that their generating functions are algebraic, and confirm several conjectures by Merino and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Andrei Asinowski , Cyril Banderier

The equidistribution of many crossing and nesting statistics exists in several combinatorial objects like matchings, set partitions, permutations, and embedded labelled graphs. The involutions switching nesting and crossing numbers for set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Lily Yen

Higher dimensional permutations are tuples of d-1 permutations that can be identified with a point set in a d-dimensional grid. In N. Bonichon and P.-J. Morel, {\it J. Integer Sequences} 25 (2022), several conjectures regarding the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Thomas Muller

We consider a random permutation drawn from the set of permutations of length $n$ that avoid some given set of patterns of length 3. We show that the number of occurrences of another pattern $\sigma$ has a limit distribution, after suitable…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Svante Janson

We review and extend what is known about the generating functions for consecutive pattern-avoiding permutations of length 4, 5 and beyond, and their asymptotic behaviour. There are respectively, seven length-4 and twenty-five length-5…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Nicholas R Beaton , Andrew R Conway , Anthony J Guttmann

For a set of permutation patterns $\Pi$, let $F^\text{st}_n(\Pi,q)$ be the st-polynomial of permutations avoiding all patterns in $\Pi$. Suppose $312\in\Pi$. For a class of permutation statistics which includes inversion and descent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-13 Wuttisak Trongsiriwat

Motivated by the recent proof of the Stanley-Wilf conjecture, we study the asymptotic behavior of the number of permutations avoiding a generalized pattern. Generalized patterns allow the requirement that some pairs of letters must be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergi Elizalde

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

The subject of pattern avoiding permutations has its roots in computer science, namely in the problem of sorting a permutation through a stack. A formula for the number of permutations of length n that can be sorted by passing it twice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-26 Anders Claesson , Sergey Kitaev , Einar Steingrimsson

Pattern avoiding machines were introduced recently by Claesson, Cerbai and Ferrari as a particular case of the two-stacks in series sorting device. They consist of two restricted stacks in series, ruled by a right-greedy procedure and the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-23 J. -L. Baril , G. Cerbai , C. Khalil , V. Vajnovszki

In a recent paper, Backelin, West and Xin describe a map $\phi ^*$ that recursively replaces all occurrences of the pattern $k... 21$ in a permutation $\sigma$ by occurrences of the pattern $(k-1)... 21 k$. The resulting permutation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-05 Mireille Bousquet-Melou , Einar Steingrimsson

In this note, we prove some and conjecture other results regarding the distribution of descent top and descent bottom sets on some pattern-avoiding permutations. In particular, for 3-letter patterns, we show bijectively that the set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Alexander Burstein

We present results on the enumeration of crossings and nestings for matchings and set partitions. Using a bijection between partitions and vacillating tableaux, we show that if we fix the sets of minimal block elements and maximal block…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William Y. C. Chen , Eva Y. P. Deng , Rosena R. X. Du , Richard P. Stanley , Catherine H. Yan

In this paper, we study pattern avoidances of generalized permutations and show that the number of all generalized permutations avoiding $\pi$ is independent of the choice of $\pi\in S_3$, which extends the classic results on permutations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Zhousheng Mei , Suijie Wang

We completely classify the asymptotic behavior of the number of alternating sign matrices classically avoiding a single permutation pattern, in the sense of [Johansson and Linusson 2007]. In particular, we give a uniform proof of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Mathilde Bouvel , Eric S. Egge , Rebecca N. Smith , Jessica Striker , Justin M. Troyka

In a recent paper, Bona and Smith define the notion of \textit{strong avoidance}, in which a permutation and its square both avoid a given pattern. In this paper, we generalize this idea to what we call \textit{chain avoidance}. We say that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Kassie Archer , Aaron Geary

The concept of pattern avoidance respectively containment in permutations can be extended to permutations on multisets in a straightforward way. In this note we present a direct proof of the already known fact that the well-known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-24 Marie-Louise Bruner

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