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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

Connections between longest increasing subsequences in random permutations and eigenvalues of random matrices with complex entries have been intensely studied. This note applies properties of random elements of the finite general linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jason Fulman

The odd diagram of a permutation is a subset of the classical diagram with additional parity conditions. In this paper, we study classes of permutations with the same odd diagram, which we call odd diagram classes. First, we prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Francesco Brenti , Angela Carnevale , Bridget Eileen Tenner

Inversion sequences of length $n$, $\mathbf{I}_n$, are integer sequences $(e_1, \ldots, e_n)$ with $0 \leq e_i < n$ for each $i$. The study of patterns in inversion sequences was initiated recently by Mansour-Shattuck and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Megan A. Martinez , Carla D. Savage

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

Permutations avoiding all patterns of a given shape (in the sense of Robinson-Schensted-Knuth) are considered. We show that the shapes of all such permutations are contained in a suitable thick hook, and deduce an exponential growth rate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ron M. Adin , Yuval Roichman

We present some results on the proportion of permutations of length $n$ containing certain mesh patterns as $n$ grows large, and give exact enumeration results in some cases. In particular, we focus on mesh patterns where entire rows and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Dejan Govc , Jason P. Smith

We study long $r$-twins in random words and permutations. Motivated by questions posed in works of Dudek-Grytczuk-Ruci\'nski, we obtain the following. For a uniform word in $[k]^n$ we prove sharp one-sided tail bounds showing that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Elliott Liu , Linus Tang , Jessica Wan

We obtain an explicit formula for the variance of the number of $k$-peaks in a uniformly random permutation. This is then used to obtain an asymptotic formula for the variance of the length of longest $k$-alternating subsequence in random…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Recep Altar Çiçeksiz , Yunus Emre Demirci , Ümit Işlak

The longest increasing subsequence of a random walk with mean zero and finite variance is known to be $n^{1/2 + o(1)}$. We show that this is not universal for symmetric random walks. In particular, the symmetric Ultra-fat tailed random walk…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Robin Pemantle , Yuval Peres

We establish a scaling limit result for the length $\operatorname{LIS}(\sigma_n)$ of the longest increasing subsequence of a permutation $\sigma_n$ of size $n$ sampled from the Brownian separable permuton $\boldsymbol{\mu}_p$ of parameter…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Arka Adhikari , Jacopo Borga , Thomas Budzinski , William Da Silva , Delphin Sénizergues

The length $\mathsf{is}(\pi)$ of a longest increasing subsequence in a permutation $\pi$ has been extensively studied. An increasing subsequence is one that has no descents. We study generalizations of this statistic by finding longest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Krishna Menon , Anurag Singh

In this paper, we compute the distributions of the statistic number of crossings over permutations avoiding one of the pairs $\{321,231\}$, $\{123,132\}$ and $\{123,213\}$. The obtained results are new combinatorial interpretations of two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Paul M. Rakotomamonjy , Sandrataniaina R. Andriantsoa , Arthur Randrianarivony

Consider a random permutation of $kn$ objects that permutes $n$ disjoint blocks of size $k$ and then permutes elements within each block. Normalizing its cycle lengths by $kn$ gives a random partition of unity, and we derive the limit law…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Nathan Tung

We set up a new notion of local convergence for permutations and we prove a characterization in terms of proportions of \emph{consecutive} pattern occurrences. We also characterize random limiting objects for this new topology introducing a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Jacopo Borga

Two permutations $(x_1,\dots,x_w)$ and $(y_1,\dots,y_w)$ are weakly similar if $x_i<x_{i+1}$ if and only if $y_i<y_{i+1}$ for all $1\leqslant i \leqslant w$. Let $\pi$ be a permutation of the set $[n]=\{1,2,\dots, n\}$ and let $wt(\pi)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Andrzej Dudek , Jarosław Grytczuk , Andrzej Ruciński

A permutation of the integers avoiding monotone arithmetic progressions of length $6$ was constructed in (Geneson, 2018). We improve on this by constructing a permutation of the integers avoiding monotone arithmetic progressions of length…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Sarosh Adenwalla

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

We study the length of cycles of random permutations drawn from the Mallows distribution. Under this distribution, the probability of a permutation $\pi \in \mathbb{S}_n$ is proportional to $q^{\textrm{inv}(\pi)}$ where $0<q\le 1$ and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Alexey Gladkich , Ron Peled

We introduce consecutive equi-$n$-squares, a variant of equi-$n$-squares in which at least one row or column forms a fixed permutation of $\{1,\dots,n\}$, taken for concreteness to be $(1,\dots,n)$. More generally, the enumeration and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Andrew Pendleton