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We obtain an upper and lower bound for the number of reduced words for a permutation in terms of the number of braid classes and the number of commutation classes of the permutation. We classify the permutations that achieve each of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Susanna Fishel , Elizabeth Milićević , Rebecca Patrias , Bridget Eileen Tenner

We study the expansions of permutation statistics in the basis of functions counting occurrences of a fixed pattern in a permutation. We show the finiteness of these pattern expansions for a class of permutation statistics including the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Ian Cavey , Hugh Dennin , Bridget Eileen Tenner

The $\textit{Edelman-Greene statistic}$ of S. Billey-B. Pawlowski measures the "shortness" of the Schur expansion of a Stanley symmetric function. We show that the maximum value of this statistic on permutations of Coxeter length $n$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Gidon Orelowitz

We introduce a partial order on the set of all reduced words of a given permutation $\omega$, called \emph{directed-braid poset} of $\omega$. This poset enables us to produce two algorithms: One is a sorting algorithm applied on any reduced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Olcay Coşkun , Müge Taşkın

Kolmogorov complexity of a finite binary word reflects both algorithmic structure and the empirical distribution of symbols appearing in the word. Words with symbol frequencies far from one half have smaller combinatorial richness and…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-25 Brani Vidakovic

We study the maximum multiplicity $\mathcal{M}(k,n)$ of a simple transposition $s_k=(k \: k+1)$ in a reduced word for the longest permutation $w_0=n \: n-1 \: \cdots \: 2 \: 1$, a problem closely related to much previous work on sorting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Christian Gaetz , Yibo Gao , Pakawut Jiradilok , Gleb Nenashev , Alexander Postnikov

Given a countable set X (usually taken to be N or Z), an infinite permutation $\pi$ of X is a linear ordering $<_\pi$ of X. This paper investigates the combinatorial complexity of infinite permutations on N associated with the image of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Steven Widmer

The complexity function of an infinite word $w$ on a finite alphabet $A$ is the sequence counting, for each non-negative $n$, the number of words of length $n$ on the alphabet $A$ that are factors of the infinite word $w$. For any given…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-01 C. Mauduit , C. -G. Moreira

We give a bijective proof of Macdonald's reduced word identity using pipe dreams and Little's bumping algorithm. This proof extends to a principal specialization due to Fomin and Stanley. Such a proof has been sought for over 20 years. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Sara C. Billey , Alexander E. Holroyd , Benjamin Young

We define and construct the "canonical reduced word" of a boolean permutation, and show that the RSK tableaux for that permutation can be read off directly from this reduced word. We also describe those tableaux that can correspond to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Emily Gunawan , Jianping Pan , Heather M. Russell , Bridget Eileen Tenner

In combinatorics on words, the well-studied factor complexity function $\rho_{\infw{x}}$ of a sequence $\infw{x}$ over a finite alphabet counts, for every nonnegative integer $n$, the number of distinct length-$n$ factors of $\infw{x}$. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Jean-Paul Allouche , John M. Campbell , Shuo Li , Jeffrey Shallit , Manon Stipulanti

A double occurrence word $w$ over a finite alphabet $\Sigma$ is a word in which each alphabet letter appears exactly twice. Such words arise naturally in the study of topology, graph theory, and combinatorics. Recently, double occurrence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Jonathan Burns , Tilahun Muche

We study the asymptotics and fine-scale behavior of quantitative combinatorial measures of infinite words and related dynamical and algebraic structures. We construct infinite recurrent words $w$ whose complexity functions $p_w(n)$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Be'eri Greenfeld , Carlos Gustavo Moreira , Efim Zelmanov

We suggest an approach for the enumeration of minimal permutations having d descents which uses skew Young tableaux. We succeed in finding a general expression for the number of such permutations in terms of (several) sums of determinants.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-01 Mathilde Bouvel , Luca Ferrari

Motivated by a recent random pipe dream model, we study a family of probability distributions on \(S_n\) arising from Bott--Samelson varieties over finite fields. More precisely, for a word \(R\), we consider the Bott--Samelson map…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jingqi Li , Haorun Yin , Wenbin Yu , Shixuan Zeng

We discuss the notion of privileged word, recently introduced by Peltomaki. A word w is privileged if it is of length <=1, or has a privileged border that occurs exactly twice in w. We prove the following results: (1) if w^k is privileged…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Michael Forsyth , Amlesh Jayakumar , Jeffrey Shallit

Enumerating the number of times one word occurs in another is a much-studied combinatorial subject. By utilizing a method that we call ``lexicographic extreme referencing'', we provide a formula for computing occurrences of one binary word…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Roger Tian

In this report, we consider Adelman's algorithm for generating shortest permutation strings. We introduce a new representation approach which reveals some properties of Adelman's algorithm.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-20 Hesam Dashti

Regularization of neural machine translation is still a significant problem, especially in low-resource settings. To mollify this problem, we propose regressing word embeddings (ReWE) as a new regularization technique in a system that is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Ehsan Zare Borzeshi , Nazanin Esmaili , Massimo Piccardi

The primary research questions of this paper center on defining the amount of context that is necessary and/or appropriate when investigating the relationship between language model probabilities and cognitive phenomena. We investigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Cassandra L. Jacobs , Andrés Buxó-Lugo , Anna K. Taylor , Marie Leopold-Hooke