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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

We consider the avoidance of patterns in inversion sequences that relate sorting via sorting machines including data structures such as pop stacks and stacks. Such machines have been studied under a variety of additional constraints and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Toufik Mansour , Howard Skogman , Rebecca Smith

In this paper, the problem of pattern avoidance in generalized non-crossing trees is studied. The generating functions for generalized non-crossing trees avoiding patterns of length one and two are obtained. Lagrange inversion formula is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-12 Yidong Sun , Zhiping Wang

In this paper, we characterize and enumerate pattern-avoiding permutations composed of only 3-cycles. In particular, we answer the question for the six patterns of length 3. We find that the number of permutations composed of $n$ 3-cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Kassie Archer , Christina Graves

We consider the problem of packing fixed-length patterns into a permutation, and develop a connection between the number of large patterns and the number of bonds in a permutation. Improving upon a result of Kaplansky and Wolfowitz, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Cheyne Homberger

We investigate pattern avoidance in alternating permutations and generalizations thereof. First, we study pattern avoidance in an alternating analogue of Young diagrams. In particular, we extend Babson-West's notion of shape-Wilf…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Nihal Gowravaram , Ravi Jagadeesan

Comtet introduced the notion of indecomposable permutations in 1972. A permutation is indecomposable if and only if it has no proper prefix which is itself a permutation. Indecomposable permutations were studied in the literature in various…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Alice L. L. Gao , Sergey Kitaev , Philip B. Zhang

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

In this note we count linear arrangements that avoid certain patterns and show their connection to the derangement numbers. We discuss the sequence Dn, which counts linear arrangements that avoid patterns 12, 23, ..., (n-1)n, n1, and show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Enrique Navarrete

Pattern avoiding machines were recently introduced by Claesson, Ferrari and the current author to gain a better understanding of the classical $2$-stacksort problem. In this paper we generalize these devices by allowing permutations with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Giulio Cerbai

The pattern avoidance problem seeks to construct a set $X\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ with large dimension that avoids a prescribed pattern. Examples of such patterns include three-term arithmetic progressions (solutions to $x_1 - 2x_2 + x_3 =…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-04-05 Jacob Denson , Malabika Pramanik , Joshua Zahl

We count permutations avoiding a nonconsecutive instance of a two- or three-letter pattern, that is, the pattern may occur but only as consecutive entries in the permutation. Two-letter patterns give rise to the Fibonacci numbers. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Callan

In this paper, we consider pattern avoidance in a subset of words on $\{1,1,2,2,\dots,n,n\}$ called reverse double lists. In particular a reverse double list is a word formed by concatenating a permutation with its reversal. We enumerate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Monica Anderson , Marika Diepenbroek , Lara Pudwell , Alex Stoll

In the set of all patterns in $S_n$, it is clear that each k-pattern occurs equally often. If we instead restrict to the class of permutations avoiding a specific pattern, the situation quickly becomes more interesting. Mikl\'os B\'ona…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Cheyne Homberger

We survey the known results about simple permutations. In particular, we present a number of recent enumerative and structural results pertaining to simple permutations, and show how simple permutations play an important role in the study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-18 Robert Brignall

This article introduces an analogue of permutation classes in the context of polyominoes. For both permutation classes and polyomino classes, we present an original way of characterizing them by avoidance constraints (namely, with excluded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-08 Daniela Battaglino , Mathilde Bouvel , Andrea Frosini , Simone Rinaldi

Br\"and\'en and Claesson introduced mesh patterns to provide explicit expansions for certain permutation statistics as linear combinations of (classical) permutation patterns. The first systematic study of avoidance of mesh patterns was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Sergey Kitaev , Philip B. Zhang , Xutong Zhang

We consider the question of computing the distribution of a permutation statistics over restricted permutations via enumeration schemes. The restricted permutations are those avoiding sets of vincular patterns (which include both classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Andrew M. Baxter

In this paper we calculate the cardinality of the set S_n(T,tau) of all permutations in S_n that avoid one pattern from S_4 and a nonempty set of patterns from S_3.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Mansour

Arrow patterns were introduced by Berman and Tenner as a generalization of vincular patterns. They observed that arrow patterns have the potential to bridge the divide between a permutation's cycle notation and its one-line notation; in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Kassie Archer , Robert P. Laudone