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We consider the number of passes a permutation needs to take through a stack if we only pop the appropriate output values and start over with the remaining entries in their original order. We define a permutation $\pi$ to be $k$-pass…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Toufik Mansour , Howard Skogman , Rebecca Smith

Permutation patterns and pattern avoidance are central, well-studied concepts in combinatorics and computer science. Given two permutations $\tau$ and $\pi$, the pattern matching problem (PPM) asks whether $\tau$ contains $\pi$. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Benjamin Aram Berendsohn

A permutation $\pi$ contains a pattern $\sigma$ if and only if there is a subsequence in $\pi$ with its letters are in the same relative order as those in $\sigma$. Partially ordered patterns (POPs) provide a convenient way to denote…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Kai Ting Keshia Yap , David Wehlau , Imed Zaguia

A permutation $\pi$ contains a permutation $\sigma$ as a pattern if it contains a subsequence of length $|\sigma|$ whose elements are in the same relative order as in the permutation $\sigma$. This notion plays a major role in enumerative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Ivan Bliznets , Marek Cygan , Pawel Komosa , Lukas Mach

We find a formula for the number of permutations of $[n]$ that have exactly $s$ runs up and down. The formula is at once terminating, asymptotic, and exact.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. Rodney Canfield , Herbert S. Wilf

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

We prove decidability results on the existence of constant subsequences of uniformly recurrent morphic sequences along arithmetic progressions. We use spectral properties of the subshifts they generate to give a first algorithm deciding…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Fabien Durand , Valérie Goyheneche

The fundamental question considered in algorithms on strings is that of indexing, that is, preprocessing a given string for specific queries. By now we have a number of efficient solutions for this problem when the queries ask for an exact…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Paweł Gawrychowski , Garance Gourdel , Tatiana Starikovskaya , Teresa Anna Steiner

The peak set of a permutation records the indices of its peaks. These sets have been studied in a variety of contexts, including recent work by Billey, Burdzy, and Sagan, which enumerated permutations with prescribed peak sets. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Robert Davis , Sarah A. Nelson , T. Kyle Petersen , Bridget E. Tenner

Let C be a finite set of $N elements and R = {R_1,R_2, ..,R_m} a family of M subsets of C. The family R verifies the consecutive ones property if there exists a permutation P of C such that each R_i in R is an interval of P. There already…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-24 Mathieu Raffinot

In this paper, we study the occurrence of patterns in the cycle structures of permutations.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-16 Miles Eli Jones , Jeffrey Remmel

A descent $k$ of a permutation $\pi=\pi_{1}\pi_{2}\dots\pi_{n}$ is called a big descent if $\pi_{k}>\pi_{k+1}+1$; denote the number of big descents of $\pi$ by $\operatorname{bdes}(\pi)$. We study the distribution of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Sergi Elizalde , Johnny Rivera , Yan Zhuang

In this note we study the {\em asymptotic popularity}, that is, the limit probability to find a given consecutive pattern at a random position in a random permutation in the eighteen classes of permutations avoiding at least two length 3…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Nathanaël Hassler , Sergey Kirgizov

We introduce the stack-sorting map $\text{SC}_\sigma$ that sorts, in a right-greedy manner, an input permutation through a stack that avoids some vincular pattern $\sigma$. The stack-sorting maps of Cerbai et al. in which the stack avoids a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-23 William Zhao

The ordinal patterns of a fixed number of consecutive values in a time series is the spatial ordering of these values. Counting how often a specific ordinal pattern occurs in a time series provides important insights into the properties of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Annika Betken , Giorgio Micali , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

A permutation $\pi$ is said to avoid a chain $(\sigma:\tau)$ of patterns if $\pi$ avoids $\sigma$ and $\pi^2$ avoids $\tau.$ In this paper, we define a notion of pattern avoidance for compositions of positive integers and use that idea to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Kassie Archer , Noel Bourne

An infinite permutation is a linear ordering of the set of non-negative integers. Generally, the properties of infinite permutations analogous to those of infinite words show some resemblances and some differences between permutations and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-09 S. V. Avgustinovich , A. E. Frid , T. Kamae , P. V. Salimov

We study statistical properties of the random variables $X_{\sigma}(\pi)$, the number of occurrences of the pattern $\sigma$ in the permutation $\pi$. We present two contrasting approaches to this problem: traditional probability theory and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Svante Janson , Brian Nakamura , Doron Zeilberger

Isomorphisms p between pattern classes A and B are considered. It is shown that, if p is not a symmetry of the entire set of permutations, then, to within symmetry, A is a subset of one a small set of pattern classes whose structure,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-16 Michael Albert , M. D. Atkinson , Anders Claesson

Given a countable set X (usually taken to be the natural numbers or the integers), an infinite permutation \pi of X is a linear ordering of X. This paper investigates the combinatorial complexity of the infinite permutation on the natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-06 Steven Widmer