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We enumerate several classes of pattern-avoiding rectangulations. We establish new bijective links with pattern-avoiding permutations, prove that their generating functions are algebraic, and confirm several conjectures by Merino and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Andrei Asinowski , Cyril Banderier

We construct generating trees with one, two, and three labels for some classes of permutations avoiding generalized patterns of length 3 and 4. These trees are built by adding at each level an entry to the right end of the permutation,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-08-01 Sergi Elizalde

The maximally clustered permutations are characterized by avoiding the classical permutation patterns 3421, 4312, and 4321. This class contains the freely-braided permutations and the fully-commutative permutations. In this work, we show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-25 Hugh Denoncourt , Brant C. Jones

We study positional statistics for four families of pattern-avoiding permutations counted by the large Schr\"oder numbers. Specifically, we focus on the pairs of patterns {2413,3142} (separable permutations), {1324,1423}, {1423,2413}, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Juan B. Gil , Oscar A. Lopez , Michael D. Weiner

In 1990 West conjectured that there are $2(3n)!/((n+1)!(2n+1)!)$ two-stack sortable permutations on $n$ letters. This conjecture was proved analytically by Zeilberger in 1992. Later, Dulucq, Gire, and Guibert gave a combinatorial proof of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eric S. Egge , Toufik Mansour

In this paper we continue the study of permutations avoiding the vincular pattern $1-32-4$ by constructing a generating tree with a single label for these permutations. This construction finally provides a clearer explanation of why a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Matteo Cervetti

Ascent sequences of length $n$ avoiding the pattern $021$ are enumerated by the $n$-th Catalan number $C_n=\frac{1}{n+1}\binom{2n}{n}$. In this paper, we extend this result and enumerate ascent sequences avoiding $\{021,\tau\}$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Toufik Mansour , Mark Shattuck

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

We classify all bi-vincular patterns of length two and three according to the number of permutations avoiding them. These patterns were recently defined by Bousquet-Melou et. al., and are natural generalizations of Babson and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-17 Robert Parviainen

Recently, Bill Chen, together with his disciples Alvin Dai and Robin Zhou, discovered, and very elegantly proved, an algebraic equation satisfied by the generating function enumerating 123-avoiding words with two occurrences of each of 1,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Nathaniel Shar , Doron Zeilberger

Classical pattern avoidance and occurrence are well studied in the symmetric group $\mathcal{S}_{n}$. In this paper, we provide explicit recurrence relations to the generating functions counting the number of classical pattern occurrence in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Dun Qiu , Jeffrey Remmel

The existence of apparently coincidental equalities (also called Wilf-equivalences) between the enumeration sequences, or generating functions, of various hereditary classes of combinatorial structures has attracted significant interest. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-01 Michael Albert , Mathilde Bouvel

We find a generating function expressed as a continued fraction that enumerates ordered trees by the number of vertices at different levels. Several Catalan problems are mapped to an ordered-tree problem and their generating functions also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mahendra Jani , Robert G. Rieper

Ascent sequences form a central class of combinatorial objects, as they are in bijection with several important families such as (2+2)-free posets, Stoimenow matchings, and other Fishburn objects, and are enumerated by the Fishburn numbers.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Qi Liu , Sergey Kitaev , Philip B. Zhang

We study generating functions for the number of permutations on n letters avoiding 132 and an arbitrary permutation $\tau$ on k letters, or containing $\tau$ exactly once. In several interesting cases the generating function depends only on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Mansour , A. Vainshtein

A permutation is said to be \emph{alternating} if it starts with rise and then descents and rises come in turn. In this paper we study the generating function for the number of alternating permutations on $n$ letters that avoid or contain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Mansour

We study generating functions for the number of involutions in $S_n$ avoiding (or containing once) 132, and avoiding (or containing once) an arbitrary permutation $\tau$ on $k$ letters. In several interesting cases the generating function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 O. Guibert , T. Mansour

We study the involutions belonging to the class of 321 avoiding permutations. We calculate the algebraic generating functions of the set containing the involutions avoiding 321 and of some of its subsets. Precisely we determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-29 Piera Manara , Claudio Perelli Cippo

In this paper, we revisit the application of generating trees to the pattern avoidance problem for permutations. In particular, we study this problem for certain general sets of patterns and propose a new procedure leveraging the FinLabel…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Toufik Mansour , Reza Rastegar , Mark Shattuck

A 321-k-gon-avoiding permutation pi avoids 321 and the following four patterns: k(k+2)(k+3)...(2k-1)1(2k)23...(k+1), k(k+2)(k+3)...(2k-1)(2k)123...(k+1), (k+1)(k+2)(k+3)...(2k-1)1(2k)23...k, (k+1)(k+2)(k+3)...(2k-1)(2k)123...k. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 T. Mansour , Z. Stankova