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An open conjecture in pattern avoidance theory is that the distribution of the major index among 321-avoiding permutations is distributed unimodally. We construct a formula for this distribution, and in the case of 2 descents prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-14 William J. Keith

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

In this paper, we compute the distributions of the statistic number of crossings over permutations avoiding one of the pairs $\{321,231\}$, $\{123,132\}$ and $\{123,213\}$. The obtained results are new combinatorial interpretations of two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Paul M. Rakotomamonjy , Sandrataniaina R. Andriantsoa , Arthur Randrianarivony

We present a generating function and a closed counting formula in two variables that enumerate a family of classes of permutations that avoid or contain an increasing pattern of length three and have a prescribed number of occurrences of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-25 Hilmar Gudmundsson

Not long ago, Claesson and Mansour proposed some conjectures about the enumeration of the permutations avoiding more than three Babson - Steingr\'\i msson patterns (generalized patterns of type $(1,2)$ or $(2,1)$). The avoidance of one, two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Antonio Bernini , Elisa Pergola

Vincular or dashed patterns resemble classical patterns except that some of the letters within an occurrence are required to be adjacent. We prove several infinite families of Wilf-equivalences for k-ary words involving vincular patterns…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-11 Toufik Mansour , Mark Shattuck

The diagram of a 132-avoiding permutation can easily be characterized: it is simply the diagram of a partition. Based on this fact, we present a new bijection between 132-avoiding and 321-avoiding permutations. We will show that this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Astrid Reifegerste

We consider the problem of enumerating the permutations containing exactly $k$ occurrences of a pattern of length 3. This enumeration has received a lot of interest recently, and there are a lot of known results. This paper presents an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Markus Fulmek

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 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

A word $w=w_1w_2\cdots w_n$ is alternating if either $w_1<w_2>w_3<w_4>\cdots$ (when the word is up-down) or $w_1>w_2<w_3>w_4<\cdots$ (when the word is down-up). In this paper, we initiate the study of (pattern-avoiding) alternating words.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Emma L. L. Gao , Sergey Kitaev , Philip B. Zhang

We consider the distribution of ascents, descents, peaks, valleys, double ascents, and double descents over permutations avoiding a set of patterns. Many of these statistics have already been studied over sets of permutations avoiding a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Michael Bukata , Ryan Kulwicki , Nicholas Lewandowski , Lara Pudwell , Jacob Roth , Teresa Wheeland

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

We extend the concept of pattern avoidance in permutations on a totally ordered set to pattern avoidance in permutations on partially ordered sets. The number of permutations on $P$ that avoid the pattern $\pi$ is denoted $Av_P(\pi)$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Sam Hopkins , Morgan Weiler

We present a method, illustrated by several examples, to find explicit counts of permutations containing a given multiset of three letter patterns. The method is recursive, depending on bijections to reduce to the case of a smaller…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Callan

In this paper, we study the pattern occurrence in $k$-ary words. We prove an explicit upper bound on the number of $k$-ary words avoiding any given pattern using a random walk argument. Additionally, we reproduce several already known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Toufik Mansour , Reza Rastegar

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

A permutation $\pi$ is said to avoid a chain $(\sigma:\tau)$ of patterns if $\pi$ avoids $\sigma$ and $\pi^2$ avoids $\tau.$ In this paper, we define a notion of pattern avoidance for compositions of positive integers and use that idea to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Kassie Archer , Noel Bourne

In [Kit1] Kitaev discussed simultaneous avoidance of two 3-patterns with no internal dashes, that is, where the patterns correspond to contiguous subwords in a permutation. In three essentially different cases, the numbers of such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Mansour , S. Kitaev

We enumerate 132-avoiding permutations of order 3 in terms of the Catalan and Motzkin generating functions, answering a question of B\'{o}na and Smith from 2019. We also enumerate 231-avoiding permutations that are composed only of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Kassie Archer , Robert P. Laudone