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In a previous work, B\'ona and Pantone studied permutations that avoided all but one pattern of length $k$ that began with a length $k-1$ increasing subsequence. We draw the connection between that idea and distant patterns, first discussed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Nicholas Van Nimwegen

We prove that there are permutation classes (hereditary properties of permutations) of every growth rate (Stanley-Wilf limit) at least \lambda \approx 2.48187, the unique real root of x^5-2x^4-2x^2-2x-1, thereby establishing a conjecture of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Vincent Vatter

This paper starts the Wilf-classification of mesh patterns of length 2. Although there are initially 1024 patterns to consider we introduce automatic methods to reduce the number of potentially different Wilf-classes to at most 65. By…

For any permutation w, we characterize the reduced words of w that are their own commutation class. When w is the long element n(n-1)...321 and n \ge 4, there are exactly four such words.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Bridget Eileen Tenner

When two patterns occur equally often in a set of permutations, we say that these patterns are equipopular. Using both structural and analytic tools, we classify the equipopular patterns in the set of separable permutations. In particular,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Michael Albert , Cheyne Homberger , Jay Pantone

We introduce and characterise grid classes, which are natural generalisations of other well-studied permutation classes. This characterisation allows us to give a new, short proof of the Fibonacci dichotomy: the number of permutations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sophie Huczynska , Vincent Vatter

We study a family of equivalence relations on $S_n$, the group of permutations on $n$ letters, created in a manner similar to that of the Knuth relation and the forgotten relation. For our purposes, two permutations are in the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-04 William Kuszmaul

Two permutations $\pi$ and $\tau$ are c-Wilf equivalent if, for each $n$, the number of permutations in $S_n$ avoiding $\pi$ as a consecutive pattern (i.e., in adjacent positions) is the same as the number of those avoiding $\tau$. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Tim Dwyer , Sergi Elizalde

Let $E_n^r=\{[\tau]_a=(\tau_1^{(a_1)},...,\tau_n^{(a_n)})| \tau\in S_n,\ 1\leq a_i\leq r\}$ be the set of all signed permutations on the symbols 1,2,...,n with signs 1,2,...,r. We prove, for every 2-letter signed pattern $[\tau]_a$, that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Mansour

A grid class consists of permutations whose pictorial depiction can be partitioned into increasing and decreasing parts as determined by a given matrix. In this paper, we introduce a method for enumerating cyclic permutations in vector grid…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Kassie Archer , L. -K. Lauderdale

Motivated by a correlation between the distribution of descents over permutations that avoid a consecutive pattern and those avoiding the respective quasi-consecutive pattern, as established in this paper, we obtain a complete $\des$-Wilf…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Yan Wang , Qi Fang , Shishuo Fu , Sergey Kitaev , Haijun Li

It is proved that, for a prime $p>2$ and integer $n\geq 1$, finite $p$-groups of nilpotency class $3$ and having only two conjugacy class sizes $1$ and $p^n$ exist if and only if $n$ is even; moreover, for a given even positive integer,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Tushar Kanta Naik , Rahul Dattatraya Kitture , Manoj K. Yadav

We prove that the set of patterns {1324,3416725} is Wilf-equivalent to the pattern 1234 and that the set of patterns {2143,3142,246135} is Wilf-equivalent to the set of patterns {2413,3142}. These are the first known unbalanced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Alexander Burstein , Jay Pantone

We collect open problems in permutation patterns on four themes: rank-unimodality in the permutation pattern poset, Wilf-equivalence and shape-Wilf-equivalence, the enumeration of derangements in permutation classes, and sorting by stacks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Vincent Vatter

We define the operation of composing two hereditary classes of permutations using the standard composition of permutations as functions and we explore properties and structure of permutation classes considering this operation. We mostly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Mark Karpilovskij

The age of each countable homogeneous permutation forms a Ramsey class. Thus, there are five countably infinite Ramsey classes of permutations.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Julia Böttcher , Jan Foniok

A pattern class is a set of permutations closed under the formation of subpermutations. Such classes can be characterised as those permutations not involving a particular set of forbidden permutations. A simple collection of necessary and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. H. Albert , M. D. Atkinson , Robert Brignall

For a permutation $\pi$, let $S_{n}(\pi)$ be the number of permutations on $n$ letters avoiding $\pi$. Marcus and Tardos proved the celebrated Stanley-Wilf conjecture that $L(\pi)= \lim_{n \to \infty} S_n(\pi)^{1/n}$ exists and is finite.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-01 Jacob Fox

We prove that it is decidable if a finitely based permutation class contains infinitely many simple permutations, and establish an unavoidable substructure result for simple permutations: every sufficiently long simple permutation contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robert Brignall , Nik Ruskuc , Vince Vatter

We complete the Wilf classification of signed patterns of length 5 for both signed permutations and signed involutions. New general equivalences of patterns are given which prove Jaggard's conjectures concerning involutions in the symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-01-22 Mark Dukes , Vit Jelínek , Toufik Mansour , Astrid Reifegerste