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We study pattern avoidance by combinatorial objects other than permutations, namely by ordered partitions of an integer and by permutations of a multiset. In the former case we determine the generating function explicitly, for integer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Carla D. Savage , Herbert S. Wilf

Pattern-avoiding permutations are a central object of study in both combinatorics and theoretical computer science. In this paper we design a data structure that can store any size-$n$ permutation $\tau$ that avoids an arbitrary (and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 László Kozma , Michal Opler

This paper formalizes a latent variable inference problem we call {\em supervised pattern discovery}, the goal of which is to find sets of observations that belong to a single ``pattern.'' We discuss two versions of the problem and prove…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-10 Jonathan H. Huggins , Cynthia Rudin

We discuss a new notion of pattern avoidance motivated by the operad theory: pattern avoidance in planar labelled trees. It is a generalisation of various types of consecutive pattern avoidance studied before: consecutive patterns in words,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-16 Vladimir Dotsenko

We study the longest increasing subsequence problem for random permutations avoiding the pattern $312$ and another pattern $\tau$ under the uniform probability distribution. We determine the exact and asymptotic formulas for the average…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Toufik Mansour , Gökhan Yıldırım

We present two families of Wilf-equivalences for consecutive and quasi-consecutive vincular patterns. These give new proofs of the classification of consecutive patterns of length $4$ and $5$. We then prove additional equivalences to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Evan Chen , Shyam Narayanan

Recently, Babson and Steingrimsson have introduced generalised permutation patterns that allow the requirement that two adjacent letters in a pattern must be adjacent in the permutation. We consider pattern avoidance for such patterns, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anders Claesson

Let $st=\{st_1,\ldots,st_k\}$ be a set of $k$ statistics on permutations with $k\geq 1$. We say that two given subset of permutations $T$ and $T'$ are $st$-Wilf-equivalent if the joint distributions of all statistics in $st$ over the sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Paul M. Rakotomamonjy

Let $p$ be a prime. For $d\in \mathbb{N}$, let $\mathbb{Q}_p^d$ be the standard $d$-dimensional p-adic Hilbert space. Let $m \in \mathbb{N}$ and $\text{Sym}^m(\mathbb{Q}_p^d)$ be the p-adic Hilbert space of symmetric m-tensors. We prove the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-07 K. Mahesh Krishna

In this paper, we consider the family of pattern-replacement equivalence relations referred to as the "indices and values adjacent" case. Each such equivalence is determined by a partition $P$ of a subset of $S_c$ for some $c$. In 2010,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-04 William Kuszmaul

Given an integer $k$, deciding whether a graph has a clique of size $k$ is an NP-complete problem. Wilf's inequality provides a spectral bound for the clique number of simple graphs. Wilf's inequality is stated as follows: $\frac{n}{n -…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hareshkumar Jadav , Sreekara Madyastha , Rahul Raut , Ranveer Singh

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

We complete the enumeration of cyclic permutations avoiding two patterns of length three each by providing explicit formulas for all but one of the pairs for which no such formulas were known. The pair $(123,231)$ proves to be the most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Miklos Bona , Michael Cory

In this paper we consider the enumeration of ordered set partitions avoiding a permutation pattern of length 2 or 3. We provide an exact enumeration for avoiding the permutation 12. We also give exact enumeration for ordered partitions with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Anant Godbole , Adam Goyt , Jennifer Herdan , Lara Pudwell

Hultman, Linusson, Shareshian, and Sj\"ostrand gave a pattern avoidance characterization of the permutations for which the number of chambers of its associated inversion arrangement is the same as the size of its lower interval in Bruhat…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Alexander Woo

Given permutations $\sigma \in S_k$ and $\pi \in S_n$ with $k<n$, the \emph{pattern matching} problem is to decide whether $\pi$ matches $\sigma$ as an order-isomorphic subsequence. We give a linear-time algorithm in case both $\pi$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Both Emerite Neou , Romeo Rizzi , Stéphane Vialette

An inversion sequence of length $n$ is an integer sequence $e=e_{1}e_{2}\dots e_{n}$ such that $0\leq e_{i}<i$ for each $i$. Corteel--Martinez--Savage--Weselcouch and Mansour--Shattuck began the study of patterns in inversion sequences,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Juan S. Auli , Sergi Elizalde

We study the differential uniformity of the Wan-Lidl polynomials over finite fields. A general upper bound, independent of the order of the field, is established. Additional bounds are established in settings where one of the parameters is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Li-An Chen , Robert S. Coulter

Two permutations in a class are Wilf-equivalent if, for every size, $n$, the number of permutations in the class of size $n$ containing each of them is the same. Those infinite classes that have only one equivalence class in each size for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Michael Albert , Jinge Li

We investigate permutations in terms of their cycle structure and descent set. To do this, we generalize the classical bijection of Gessel and Reutenauer to deal with permutations that have some ascending and some descending blocks. We then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-01 Jacob Steinhardt