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We initiate the study of limit shapes for random permutations avoiding a given pattern. Specifically, for patterns of length 3, we obtain delicate results on the asymptotics of distributions of positions of numbers in the permutations. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-02 Sam Miner , Igor Pak

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

We describe a new method for finding patterns in permutations that produce a given pattern after the permutation has been passed once through a stack. We use this method to describe West-3-stack-sortable permutations, that is, permutations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Henning Úlfarsson

We explore a new type of replacement of patterns in permutations, suggested by James Propp, that does not preserve the length of permutations. In particular, we focus on replacements between 123 and a pattern of two integer elements. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Vahid Fazel-Rezai

In recent work, Zeilberger and the author used a functional equations approach for enumerating permutations with r occurrences of the pattern 12...k. In particular, the approach yielded a polynomial-time enumeration algorithm for any fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-30 Brian Nakamura

Permutations whose prefixes contain at least as many ascents as descents are called ballot permutations. Lin, Wang, and Zhao have previously enumerated ballot permutations avoiding small patterns and have proposed the problem of enumerating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Nathan Sun

The second author had previously obtained explicit generating functions for moments of characteristic polynomials of permutation matrices (n points). In this paper, we generalize many aspects of this situation. We introduce random shifts of…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Paul-Olivier Dehaye , Dirk Zeindler

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 consider the problem of counting the copies of a length-$k$ pattern $\sigma$ in a sequence $f \colon [n] \to \mathbb{R}$, where a copy is a subset of indices $i_1 < \ldots < i_k \in [n]$ such that $f(i_j) < f(i_\ell)$ if and only if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Slobodan Mitrović , Pranjal Srivastava

The structure of three pattern classes Av(2143, 4321), Av(2143, 4312) and Av(1324, 4312) is determined using the machinery of monotone grid classes. This allows the permutations in these classes to be described in terms of simple diagrams…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-15 M. H. Albert , M. D. Atkinson , Robert Brignall

We find the number of compositions over finite abelian groups under two types of restrictions: (i) each part belongs to a given subset and (ii) small runs of consecutive parts must have given properties. Waring's problem over finite fields…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Zhicheng Gao , Andrew MacFie , Qiang Wang

The research on pattern-avoidance has yielded so far limited knowledge on Wilf-ordering of permutations. The Stanley-Wilf limits sqrt[n](|S_n(tau)|) and further works suggest asymptotic ordering of layered versus monotone patterns. Yet,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Zvezdelina Stankova

We enumerate permutations that avoid all but one of the $k$ patterns of length $k$ starting with a monotone increasing subsequence of length $k-1$. We compare the size of such permutation classes to the size of the class of permutations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Miklós Bóna , Jay Pantone

Constraint programming (CP) is a powerful tool for modeling mathematical concepts and objects and finding both solutions or counter examples. One of the major strengths of CP is that problems can easily be combined or expanded. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Ruth Hoffmann , Özgür Akgün , Christopher Jefferson

We explore the asymptotic distributions of sequences of integer-valued additive functions defined on the symmetric group endowed with the Ewens probability measure as the order of the group increases. Applying the method of factorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Tatjana Bakšajeva , Eugenijus Manstavičius

We define the \emph{occurrence graph} $G_p(\pi$) of a pattern $p$ in a permutation $\pi$ as the graph with the occurrences of $p$ in $\pi$ as vertices and edges between the vertices if the occurrences differ by exactly one element. We then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Bjarni Jens Kristinsson , Henning Ulfarsson

Drmota and Stufler proved recently that the expected number of pattern occurrences of a given map is asymptotically linear when the number of edges goes to infinity. In this paper we improve their result by means of a different method. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Guan-Ru Yu

Pin sequences play an important role in the structural study of permutation classes. In this paper, we study the permutation classes that comprise all the finite subpermutations contained in an infinite pin sequence. We prove that these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Ben Jarvis

A systematic study of avoidance of mesh patterns of length 2 was conducted by Hilmarsson et al., where 25 out of 65 non-equivalent cases were solved. In this paper, we give 27 distribution results for these patterns including 14…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Sergey Kitaev , Philip B. Zhang

In this paper, we study the staircase encoding of permutations, which maps a permutation to a staircase grid with cells filled with permutations. We consider many cases, where restricted to a permutation class, the staircase encoding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Christian Bean , Émile Nadeau , Henning Ulfarsson