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In this paper, we study the distribution of consecutive patterns in the set of 123-avoiding permutations and the set of 132-avoiding permutations, that is, in $\mathcal{S}_n(123)$ and $\mathcal{S}_n(132)$. We first study the distribution of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Ran Pan , Dun Qiu , Jeffrey Remmel

We obtain the generating functions for partial matchings avoiding neighbor alignments and for partial matchings avoiding neighbor alignments and left nestings. We show that there is a bijection between partial matchings avoiding three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-24 William Y. C. Chen , Neil J. Y. Fan , Alina F. Y. Zhao

Pattern avoiding machines were introduced recently by Claesson, Cerbai and Ferrari as a particular case of the two-stacks in series sorting device. They consist of two restricted stacks in series, ruled by a right-greedy procedure and the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-23 J. -L. Baril , G. Cerbai , C. Khalil , V. Vajnovszki

We define a class L_{n, k} of permutations that generalizes alternating (up-down) permutations and give bijective proofs of certain pattern-avoidance results for this class. As a special case of our results, we give two bijections between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Joel Brewster Lewis

The lattice polynomials $L_{i,j}(x)$ are introduced by Hough and Shapiro as a weighted count of certain lattice paths from the origin to the point $(i,j)$. In particular, $L_{2n, n}(x)$ reduces to the generating function of the numbers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-17 William Y. C. Chen , Louis W. Shapiro , Susan Y. J. Wu

We initiate a systematic study of pattern avoidance in rectangulations. We give a formal definition of such patterns and investigate rectangulations that avoid $\top$-like patterns - the pattern $\top$ and its rotations. For every $L…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Andrei Asinowski , Michaela A. Polley

Motivated by Vassiliev's knot invariants, Stoimenow introduced a special class of matchings, now known as Stoimenow matchings. These matchings have since been linked to various combinatorial structures enumerated by the Fishburn numbers. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Shuzhen Lv , Sergey Kitaev

It is well known that the number of distinct non-crossing matchings of $n$ half-circles in the half-plane with endpoints on the x-axis equals the $n^{th}$ Catalan number $C_n$. This paper generalizes that notion of linear non-crossing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Paul Drube , Puttipong Pongtanapaisan

We count permutations avoiding a nonconsecutive instance of a two- or three-letter pattern, that is, the pattern may occur but only as consecutive entries in the permutation. Two-letter patterns give rise to the Fibonacci numbers. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Callan

The aim of this paper is two-fold. We first prove several new interpretations of a kind of $(q,t)$-Catalan numbers along with their corresponding $\gamma$-expansions using pattern avoiding permutations. Secondly, we give a complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Shishuo Fu , Dazhao Tang , Bin Han , Jiang Zeng

In this paper, we study the Wilf-type equivalence relations among multiset permutations. We identify all multiset equivalences among pairs of patterns consisting of a pattern of length three and another pattern of length at most four. To…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Vít Jelínek , Toufik Mansour , José L. Ramírez , Mark Shattuck

We prove that the number of permutations which avoid 132-patterns and have exactly one 123-pattern equals (n-2)2^(n-3). We then give a bijection onto the set of permutations which avoid 123-patterns and have exactly one 132-pattern.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aaron Robertson

How many matchings on the vertex set V={1,2,...,2n} avoid a given configuration of three edges? Chen, Deng and Du have shown that the number of matchings that avoid three nesting edges is equal to the number of matchings avoiding three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-26 Vit Jelinek

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 two sets of pattern-avoiding ascent sequences: those avoiding both 201 and 210 and those avoiding 0021. In each case we show that the number of such ascent sequences is given by the binomial convolution of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-29 Lara K. Pudwell

Let $\mathcal{C}_n$ denote the set of words $w=w_1\cdots w_n$ on the alphabet of positive integers satisfying $w_{i+1}\leq w_i+1$ for $1 \leq i \leq n-1$ with $w_1=1$. The members of $\mathcal{C}_n$ are known as Catalan words and are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Toufik Mansour , Mark Shattuck

Nonnesting permutations are permutations of the multiset $\{1,1,2,2,\dots,n,n\}$ that avoid subsequences of the form $abba$ for any $a\neq b$. These permutations have recently been studied in connection to noncrossing (also called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Sergi Elizalde , Amya Luo

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

We initiate an in-depth study of pattern avoidance on modified ascent sequences. Our main technique consists in using Stanley's standardization to obtain a transport theorem between primitive modified ascent sequences and permutations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Giulio Cerbai

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