Enumeration of Stack-Sorting Preimages via a Decomposition Lemma
Abstract
We give three applications of a recently-proven "Decomposition Lemma," which allows one to count preimages of certain sets of permutations under West's stack-sorting map . We first enumerate the permutation class , finding a new example of an unbalanced Wilf equivalence. This result is equivalent to the enumeration of permutations sortable by , where is the bubble sort map. We then prove that the sets , , and are counted by the so-called "Boolean-Catalan numbers," settling a conjecture of the current author and another conjecture of Hossain. This completes the enumerations of all sets of the form for with the exception of the set . We also find an explicit formula for , where is the set of permutations in with descents. This allows us to prove a conjectured identity involving Catalan numbers and order ideals in Young's lattice.
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@article{arxiv.1904.02829,
title = {Enumeration of Stack-Sorting Preimages via a Decomposition Lemma},
author = {Colin Defant},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02829},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
20 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1903.09138