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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

Let $f(x) = \alpha x + \beta \mod 1$ for fixed real parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$. For any positive integer $n$, define the S\'os permutation $\pi$ to be the lexicographically first permutation such that $0 \leq f(\pi(0)) \leq f(\pi(1))…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Sarah Bockting-Conrad , Yevgenia Kashina , T. Kyle Petersen , Bridget Eileen Tenner

Let $\pi_n$ be a uniformly chosen random permutation on $[n]$. The authors of [2] showed that the expected number of distinct consecutive patterns of all lengths $k\in\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ in $\pi_n$ was $\frac{n^2}{2}(1-o(1))$ as $n\to\infty$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Verónica Borrás-Serrano , Isabel Byrne , Anant Godbole , Nathaniel Veimau

Savage and Sagan have recently defined a notion of st-Wilf equivalence for any permutation statistic st and any two sets of permutations $\Pi$ and $\Pi'$. In this paper we give a thorough investigation of st-Wilf equivalence for the charge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Kendra Killpatrick

Let $\pi$ be a permutation of $[n]=\{1,\dots,n\}$ and denote by $\ell(\pi)$ the length of a longest increasing subsequence of $\pi$. Let $\ell_{n,k}$ be the number of permutations $\pi$ of $[n]$ with $\ell(\pi)=k$. Chen conjectured that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Miklós Bóna , Marie-Louise Lackner , Bruce Sagan

We show that the probability that two permutations of $n$ letters have the same number of cycles is \[\sim \frac{1}{2\sqrt{\pi\log{n}}}.\]

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Herbert S. Wilf

We prove that there are permutation classes (hereditary properties of permutations) of every growth rate (Stanley-Wilf limit) at least \lambda \approx 2.48187, the unique real root of x^5-2x^4-2x^2-2x-1, thereby establishing a conjecture of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Vincent Vatter

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

Superpermutations are words over a finite alphabet containing every permutation as a factor. Finding the minimal length of a superpermutation is still an open problem. In this article, we introduce superpermutations matrices. We establish a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Guillaume Dumas

Two permutations $\pi$ and $\tau$ are c-Wilf equivalent if, for each $n$, the number of permutations in $S_n$ avoiding $\pi$ as a consecutive pattern (i.e., in adjacent positions) is the same as the number of those avoiding $\tau$. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Tim Dwyer , Sergi Elizalde

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

A set $S$ of permutations is forcing if for any sequence $\{\Pi_i\}_{i \in \mathbb{N}}$ of permutations where the density $d(\pi,\Pi_i)$ converges to $\frac{1}{|\pi|!}$ for every permutation $\pi \in S$, it holds that $\{\Pi_i\}_{i \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Martin Kurecka

Stankova and West showed that for any non-negative integer $s$ and any permutation $\gamma$ of $\{4,5,\dots,s+3\}$ there are as many permutations that avoid $231\gamma$ as there are that avoid $312\gamma$. We extend this result to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Ting Guo , Christian Krattenthaler , Yi Zhang

Let $st=\{st_1,\ldots,st_k\}$ be a set of $k$ statistics on permutations with $k\geq 1$. We say that two given subset of permutations $T$ and $T'$ are $st$-Wilf-equivalent if the joint distributions of all statistics in $st$ over the sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Paul M. Rakotomamonjy

We introduce some new classes of words and permutations characterized by the second difference condition $\pi(i-1) + \pi(i+1) - 2\pi(i) \leq k$, which we call the $k$-convexity condition. We demonstrate that for any sized alphabet and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-08 Christopher Coscia , Jonathan DeWitt

We say that a permutation $\pi=\pi_1\pi_2\cdots \pi_n \in \mathfrak{S}_n$ has a peak at index $i$ if $\pi_{i-1} < \pi_i > \pi_{i+1}$. Let $\mathcal{P}(\pi)$ denote the set of indices where $\pi$ has a peak. Given a set $S$ of positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Alexander Diaz-Lopez , Pamela E. Harris , Erik Insko , Mohamed Omar

A permutation $\sigma \in S_n$ is a $k$-superpattern (or $k$-universal) if it contains each $\tau \in S_k$ as a pattern. This notion of "superpatterns" can be generalized to words on smaller alphabets, and several questions about…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Zach Hunter

A permutation $\sigma\in S_n$ is said to be $k$-universal or a $k$-superpattern if for every $\pi\in S_k$, there is a subsequence of $\sigma$ that is order-isomorphic to $\pi$. A simple counting argument shows that $\sigma$ can be a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Zachary Chroman , Matthew Kwan , Mihir Singhal

Let $E_n^r=\{[\tau]_a=(\tau_1^{(a_1)},...,\tau_n^{(a_n)})| \tau\in S_n,\ 1\leq a_i\leq r\}$ be the set of all signed permutations on the symbols 1,2,...,n with signs 1,2,...,r. We prove, for every 2-letter signed pattern $[\tau]_a$, that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Mansour

Suppose we choose a permutation $\pi$ uniformly at random from $S_n$. Let $\mathsf{runsort}(\pi)$ be the permutation obtained by sorting the ascending runs of $\pi$ into lexicographic order. Alexandersson and Nabawanda recently asked if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Noga Alon , Colin Defant , Noah Kravitz