Longest subsequence for certain repeated up/down patterns in random permutations avoiding a pattern of length three
Abstract
Let denote the set of permutations of and let . For a subsequence of of length , construct the ``up/down'' sequence defined by Consider now a fixed up/down pattern: , where and . Given a permutation , consider the length of the longest subsequence of that repeats this pattern. For example, consider and . Then for the permutation , the length of the longest subsequence that repeats the pattern is 7; it is obtained by 3461798 and 3461785. The above framework includes two well-known cases. The pattern is the celebrated case of the longest increasing subsequence. The pattern (or ) is the case of the longest alternating subsequence. These have been studied both under the uniform distribution on as well as under the uniform distribution on those permutations in which avoid a particular pattern of length three. In this paper, we consider the patterns and under the uniform distribution on those permutations in which avoid the pattern . We prove that the expected value of the longest increasing subsequence following the pattern is asymptotic to and the expected value of the longest increasing subsequence following the pattern is asymptotic to . (For (alternating subsequences) it is known to be .) This leads directly to appropriate corresponding results for permutations avoiding any particular pattern of length three.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2411.11482,
title = {Longest subsequence for certain repeated up/down patterns in random permutations avoiding a pattern of length three},
author = {Ross G. Pinsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11482},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
This replaces the original version which had quite a number of typos!