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Permutations that avoid given patterns are among the most classical objects in combinatorics and have strong connections to many fields of mathematics, computer science and biology. In this paper we study fixed points of both 123- and…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Christopher Hoffman , Douglas Rizzolo , Erik Slivken

The method we have applied in "A. Bernini, L. Ferrari, R. Pinzani, Enumerating permutations avoiding three Babson-Steingrimsson patterns, Ann. Comb. 9 (2005), 137--162" to count pattern avoiding permutations is adapted to words. As an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-22 Antonio Bernini , Luca Ferrari , Renzo Pinzani

We investigate pattern avoidance in permutations satisfying some additional restrictions. These are naturally considered in terms of avoiding patterns in linear extensions of certain forest-like partially ordered sets, which we call binary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 David Bevan , Derek Levin , Peter Nugent , Jay Pantone , Lara Pudwell , Manda Riehl , ML Tlachac

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 prove generalized versions of some conjectures of Joel Lewis on the number of alternating permutations avoiding certain patterns. Our main tool is the perhaps surprising observation that a classic bijection on pattern avoiding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-09 Miklos Bona

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

The diagram of a 132-avoiding permutation can easily be characterized: it is simply the diagram of a partition. Based on this fact, we present a new bijection between 132-avoiding and 321-avoiding permutations. We will show that this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Astrid Reifegerste

An infinte word w avoids a pattern p with the involution t if there is no substitution for the variables in p and no involution t such that the resulting word is a factor of w. We investigate the avoidance of patterns with respect to the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Bastian Bischoff , Dirk Nowotka

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 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

In this paper we propose a notion of pattern avoidance in binary trees that generalizes the avoidance of contiguous tree patterns studied by Rowland and non-contiguous tree patterns studied by Dairyko, Pudwell, Tyner, and Wynn.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Petr Gregor , Torsten Mütze , Namrata

In this paper, we investigate pattern avoidance of parity restricted (even or odd) Grassmannian permutations for patterns of sizes 3 and 4. We use a combination of direct counting and bijective techniques to provide recurrence relations,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Juan B. Gil , Jessica A. Tomasko

An open conjecture in pattern avoidance theory is that the distribution of the major index among 321-avoiding permutations is distributed unimodally. We construct a formula for this distribution, and in the case of 2 descents prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-14 William J. Keith

Nonnesting permutations are permutations of the multiset $\{1,1,2,2,\dots,n,n\}$ that avoid subsequences of the form $abba$ for any $a\neq b$. These permutations have recently been studied in connection to noncrossing (also called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Sergi Elizalde , Amya Luo

We offer elementary proofs for several results in consecutive pattern containment that were previously demonstrated using ideas from cluster method and analytical combinatorics. Furthermore, we establish new general bounds on the growth…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Reza Rastegar

We introduce a new boundedness condition for affine permutations, motivated by the fruitful concept of periodic boundary conditions in statistical physics. We study pattern avoidance in bounded affine permutations. In particular, we show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Neal Madras , Justin M. Troyka

In this paper we introduce and study a class of tableaux which we call permutation tableaux; these tableaux are naturally in bijection with permutations, and they are a distinguished subset of the Le-diagrams of Alex Postnikov. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Einar Steingrimsson , Lauren K. Williams

We use the theory of symmetric functions to enumerate various classes of alternating permutations w of {1,2,...,n}. These classes include the following: (1) both w and w^{-1} are alternating, (2) w has certain special shapes, such as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard P. Stanley

Following Anders and Archer, we say that an unordered rooted labeled forest avoids the pattern $\sigma\in\mathcal{S}_k$ if in each tree, each sequence of labels along the shortest path from the root to a vertex does not contain a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Swapnil Garg , Alan Peng

We initiate an in-depth study of pattern avoidance on modified ascent sequences. Our main technique consists in using Stanley's standardization to obtain a transport theorem between primitive modified ascent sequences and permutations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Giulio Cerbai