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We establish a bijection from the set of all permutations (of a given length) that avoid a pattern $q$ and a context-sensitive language.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Murray Elder

We use various combinatorial and probabilistic techniques to study growth rates for the probability that a random permutation from the Mallows distribution avoids consecutive patterns. The Mallows distribution behaves like a $q$-analogue of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Harry Crane , Stephen DeSalvo , Sergi Elizalde

We consider the two permutation statistics which count the distinct pairs obtained from the last two terms of occurrences of patterns t_1...t_{m-2}m(m-1) and t_1...t_{m-2}(m-1)m in a permutation, respectively. By a simple involution in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Astrid Reifegerste

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

Given a permutation pattern p and an equivalence relation on permutations, we study the corresponding equivalence classes all of whose members avoid p. Four relations are studied: Conjugacy, order isomorphism, Knuth-equivalence and toric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Henning Ulfarsson

A permutation is (1-23-4)-avoiding if it contains no four entries, increasing left to right, with the middle two adjacent in the permutation. Here we give a 2-variable recurrence for the number of such permutations, improving on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-16 David Callan

A permutation $\tau$ in the symmetric group $S_j$ is minimally overlapping if any two consecutive occurrences of $\tau$ in a permutation $\sigma$ can share at most one element. B\'ona \cite{B} showed that the proportion of minimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Ran Pan , Jeffrey B. Remmel

In this paper, we study pattern avoidance for stabilized-interval-free (SIF) permutations. These permutations are contained in the set of indecomposable permutations and in the set of derangements. We enumerate pattern-avoiding SIF…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Daniel Birmajer , Juan B. Gil , Jordan O. Tirrell , Michael D. Weiner

Evil-avoiding permutations, introduced by Kim and Williams in 2022, arise in the study of the inhomogeneous totally asymmetric simple exclusion process. Rectangular permutations, introduced by Chiriv\`i, Fang, and Fourier in 2021, arise in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Katherine Tung

We determine the scaling limit for permutations conditioned to have longest decreasing subsequence of length at most $d$. These permutations are also said to avoid the pattern $(d+1)d \cdots 2 1$ and they can be written as a union of $d$…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Christopher Hoffman , Douglas Rizzolo , Erik Slivken

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

We study Mallows random permutations conditioned to avoid a given pattern $\alpha$ of length~$3$. When the bias parameter is of the form $e^{\beta/n}$, we prove that these permutations converge to a non-trivial explicit deterministic…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Thomas Budzinski , Victor Dubach , Valentin Féray , Mohamed Slim Kammoun , Mylène Maïda

A pattern is encountered in a word if some infix of the word is the image of the pattern under some non-erasing morphism. A pattern $p$ is unavoidable if, over every finite alphabet, every sufficiently long word encounters $p$. A theorem by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Arnaud Carayol , Stefan Göller

Permutation pattern-avoidance is a central concept of both enumerative and extremal combinatorics. In this paper we study the effect of permutation pattern-avoidance on the complexity of optimization problems. In the context of the dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Benjamin Aram Berendsohn , László Kozma , Michal Opler

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 the study of lattice walks there are several examples of enumerative equivalences which amount to a trade-off between domain and endpoint constraints. We present a family of such bijections for simple walks in Weyl chambers which use arc…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Julien Courtiel , Éric Fusy , Mathias Lepoutre , Marni Mishna

We prove a central limit theorem for the length of the longest subsequence of a random permutation which follows one of a class of repeating patterns. This class includes every fixed pattern of ups and downs having at least one of each,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Aaron Abrams , Eric Babson , Henry Landau , Zeph Landau , James Pommersheim

Recall that an excedance of a permutation $\pi$ is any position $i$ such that $\pi_i > i$. Inspired by the work of Hopkins, McConville and Propp (Elec. J. Comb., 2017) on sorting using toppling, we say that a permutation is toppleable if it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Arvind Ayyer , Daniel Hathcock , Prasad Tetali

In this note we present a characterisation of all unary and binary patterns that do not only contain variables, but also reversals of their instances. These types of variables were studied recently in either more general or particular…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Robert Mercaş

This paper considers the enumeration of ternary trees (i.e. rooted ordered trees in which each vertex has 0 or 3 children) avoiding a contiguous ternary tree pattern. We begin by finding recurrence relations for several simple tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Nathan Gabriel , Katherine Peske , Lara Pudwell , Samuel Tay