scholarly journals Beyond Alternating Permutations: Pattern Avoidance in Young Diagrams and Tableaux

10.37236/3246 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nihal Gowravaram ◽  
Ravi Jagadeesan
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Avoidance ◽  
General Context ◽  
Young Tableaux ◽  
Young Diagrams ◽  
Alternating Permutations ◽  
Equivalence Type ◽  
Shape Equivalence ◽  
Pattern Avoiding Permutations ◽  
Wilf Equivalence

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 equivalence to apply to alternating permutations and so generalize results of Backelin-West-Xin and Ouchterlony to alternating permutations. Second, we study pattern avoidance in the more general context of permutations with restricted ascents and descents. We consider a question of Lewis regarding permutations that are the reading words of thickened staircase Young tableaux, that is, permutations that have $k-1$ ascents followed by a descent, followed by $k-1$ ascents, et cetera. We determine the relative sizes of the sets of pattern-avoiding $(k-1)$-ascent permutations in terms of the forbidden pattern. Furthermore, inequalities in the sizes of sets of pattern-avoiding permutations in this context arise from further extensions of shape-equivalence type enumerations. This paper is the first of a two-paper series presenting the work of Beyond alternating permutations: Pattern avoidance in Young diagrams and tableaux (arXiv:1301.6796v1). The second in the series is Ascent-descent Young diagrams and pattern avoidance in alternating permutations (by the second author, submitted).

scholarly journals Ascent-Descent Young Diagrams and Pattern Avoidance in Alternating Permutations

10.37236/3244 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi Jagadeesan
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Avoidance ◽  
Electronic Journal ◽  
Young Diagrams ◽  
Alternating Permutations ◽  
Wilf Equivalence

We investigate pattern avoidance in alternating permutations and an alternating analogue of Young diagrams. In particular, using an extension of Babson and West's notion of shape-Wilf equivalence described in our recent paper (with N. Gowravaram), we generalize results of Backelin, West, and Xin and Ouchterlony to alternating permutations. Unlike Ouchterlony and Bóna's bijections, our bijections are not the restrictions of Backelin, West, and Xin's bijections to alternating permutations. This paper is the second of a two-paper series presenting the work of Beyond alternating permutations: Pattern avoidance in Young diagrams and tableaux (with N. Gowravaram, arXiv:1301.6796v1). The first paper in the series is Beyond alternating permutations: Pattern avoidance in Young diagrams and tableaux (with N. Gowravaram, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 20(4):#P17, 2013).

scholarly journals Pattern avoidance in alternating permutations and tableaux (extended abstract)

2010 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AN,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Brewster Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Avoidance ◽  
Catalan Numbers ◽  
Young Tableaux ◽  
Alternating Permutations ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Nous Montrons ◽  
Insertion Algorithm ◽  
Generating Trees ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Standard Young Tableaux

International audience We give bijective proofs of pattern-avoidance results for a class of permutations generalizing alternating permutations. The bijections employed include a modified form of the RSK insertion algorithm and recursive bijections based on generating trees. As special cases, we show that the sets $A_{2n}(1234)$ and $A_{2n}(2143)$ are in bijection with standard Young tableaux of shape $\langle 3^n \rangle$. Alternating permutations may be viewed as the reading words of standard Young tableaux of a certain skew shape. In the last section of the paper, we study pattern avoidance in the reading words of standard Young tableaux of any skew shape. We show bijectively that the number of standard Young tableaux of shape $\lambda / \mu$ whose reading words avoid $213$ is a natural $\mu$-analogue of the Catalan numbers. Similar results for the patterns $132$, $231$ and $312$. Nous présentons des preuves bijectives de résultats pour une classe de permutations à motifs exclus qui généralisent les permutations alternantes. Les bijections utilisées reposent sur une modification de l'algorithme d'insertion "RSK" et des bijections récursives basées sur des arbres de génération. Comme cas particuliers, nous montrons que les ensembles $A_{2n}(1234)$ et $A_{2n}(2143)$ sont en bijection avec les tableaux standards de Young de la forme $\langle 3^n \rangle$. Une permutation alternante peut être considérée comme le mot de lecture de certain skew tableau. Dans la dernière section de l'article, nous étudions l'évitement des motifs dans les mots de lecture de skew tableaux généraux. Nous montrons bijectivement que le nombre de tableaux standards de forme $\lambda / \mu$ dont les mots de lecture évitent $213$ est un $\mu$-analogue naturel des nombres de Catalan. Des résultats analogues sont valables pour les motifs $132$, $231$ et $312$.

scholarly journals Generating Trees and Pattern Avoidance in Alternating Permutations

10.37236/1173 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Brewster Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Avoidance ◽  
Young Tableaux ◽  
Alternating Permutations ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Permutation Pattern ◽  
Generating Trees ◽  
Generating Tree ◽  
Standard Young Tableaux ◽  
Tree Approach

We extend earlier work of the same author to enumerate alternating permutations avoiding the permutation pattern $2143$.  We use a generating tree approach to construct a recursive bijection between the set $A_{2n}(2143)$ of alternating permutations of length $2n$ avoiding $2143$ and the set of standard Young tableaux of shape $\langle n, n, n\rangle$, and between the set $A_{2n + 1}(2143)$ of alternating permutations of length $2n + 1$ avoiding $2143$ and the set of shifted standard Young tableaux of shape $\langle n + 2, n + 1, n\rangle$.  We also give a number of conjectures and open questions on pattern avoidance in alternating permutations and generalizations thereof.

scholarly journals Pattern Avoidance in Partial Permutations

10.37236/512 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Claesson ◽  
Vít Jelínek ◽  
Eva Jelínková ◽  
Sergey Kitaev
Keyword(s):  
Equivalence Class ◽  
Arbitrary Number ◽  
Pattern Avoidance ◽  
Permutation Patterns ◽  
Wilf Equivalence ◽  
Partial Words

Motivated by the concept of partial words, we introduce an analogous concept of partial permutations. A partial permutation of length $n$ with $k$ holes is a sequence of symbols $\pi=\pi_1\pi_2\dotsb\pi_n$ in which each of the symbols from the set $\{1,2,\dotsc,n-k\}$ appears exactly once, while the remaining $k$ symbols of $\pi$ are "holes". We introduce pattern-avoidance in partial permutations and prove that most of the previous results on Wilf equivalence of permutation patterns can be extended to partial permutations with an arbitrary number of holes. We also show that Baxter permutations of a given length $k$ correspond to a Wilf-type equivalence class with respect to partial permutations with $(k-2)$ holes. Lastly, we enumerate the partial permutations of length $n$ with $k$ holes avoiding a given pattern of length at most four, for each $n\ge k\ge 1$.

scholarly journals Pattern Avoidance in Matchings and Partitions

10.37236/2976 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bloom ◽  
Sergi Elizalde
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Points ◽  
Generating Functions ◽  
Direct Proof ◽  
Pattern Avoidance ◽  
Equivalence Classes ◽  
Set Partitions ◽  
Bijective Proof ◽  
Rook Placements ◽  
Wilf Equivalence ◽  
Diagram Representation

Extending the notion of pattern avoidance in permutations, we study matchings and set partitions whose arc diagram representation avoids a given configuration of three arcs. These configurations, which generalize $3$-crossings and $3$-nestings, have an interpretation, in the case of matchings, in terms of patterns in full rook placements on Ferrers boards.We enumerate $312$-avoiding matchings and partitions, obtaining algebraic generating functions, in contrast with the known D-finite generating functions for the $321$-avoiding (i.e., $3$-noncrossing) case. Our approach provides a more direct proof of a formula of Bóna for the number of $1342$-avoiding permutations. We also give a bijective proof of the shape-Wilf-equivalence of the patterns $321$ and $213$ which greatly simplifies existing proofs by Backelin-West-Xin and Jelínek, and provides an extension of work of Gouyou-Beauchamps for matchings with fixed points. Finally, we classify pairs of patterns of length 3 according to shape-Wilf-equivalence, and enumerate matchings and partitions avoiding a pair in most of the resulting equivalence classes.

scholarly journals Towards the Distribution of the Size of a Largest Planar Matching and Largest Planar Subgraph in Random Bipartite Graphs

10.37236/859 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Kiwi ◽  
Martin Loebl
Keyword(s):  
Generating Function ◽  
Maximum Size ◽  
Pattern Avoidance ◽  
Combinatorial Identities ◽  
Young Tableaux ◽  
Color Class ◽  
Lattice Walks ◽  
Type Property ◽  
Bivariate Generating Function ◽  
Standard Young Tableaux

We address the following question: When a randomly chosen regular bipartite multi–graph is drawn in the plane in the "standard way", what is the distribution of its maximum size planar matching (set of non–crossing disjoint edges) and maximum size planar subgraph (set of non–crossing edges which may share endpoints)? The problem is a generalization of the Longest Increasing Sequence (LIS) problem (also called Ulam's problem). We present combinatorial identities which relate the number of $r$-regular bipartite multi–graphs with maximum planar matching (maximum planar subgraph) of at most $d$ edges to a signed sum of restricted lattice walks in ${\Bbb Z}^d$, and to the number of pairs of standard Young tableaux of the same shape and with a "descend–type" property. Our results are derived via generalizations of two combinatorial proofs through which Gessel's identity can be obtained (an identity that is crucial in the derivation of a bivariate generating function associated to the distribution of the length of LISs, and key to the analytic attack on Ulam's problem). Finally, we generalize Gessel's identity. This enables us to count, for small values of $d$ and $r$, the number of $r$-regular bipartite multi-graphs on $n$ nodes per color class with maximum planar matchings of size $d$.Our work can also be viewed as a first step in the study of pattern avoidance in ordered bipartite multi-graphs.

scholarly journals Total positivity for cominuscule Grassmannians

2008 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AJ,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Lam ◽  
Lauren Williams
Keyword(s):  
Total Positivity ◽  
Pattern Avoidance ◽  
Young Diagrams ◽  
Negative Part ◽  
Schubert Cell ◽  
Combinatorial Objects ◽  
Preference Functions ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Orthogonal Grassmannians

International audience In this paper we explore the combinatorics of the non-negative part $(G/P)_{\geq 0}$ of a cominuscule Grassmannian. For each such Grassmannian we define Le-diagrams ― certain fillings of generalized Young diagrams which are in bijection with the cells of $(G/P)_{\geq 0}$. In the classical cases, we describe Le-diagrams explicitly in terms of pattern avoidance. We also define a game on diagrams, by which one can reduce an arbitrary diagram to a Le-diagram. We give enumerative results and relate our Le-diagrams to other combinatorial objects. Surprisingly, the totally non-negative cells in the open Schubert cell of the odd and even orthogonal Grassmannians are (essentially) in bijection with preference functions and atomic preference functions respectively. Dans cet article nous schtroumpfons la combinatoire de la partie non-négative $(G/P)_{\geq 0}$ d'une Grassmannienne cominuscule. Pour chaque Grassmannienne de ce type nous définissons les Le-diagrammes ― certains remplissages de diagrammes de Young généralisés en bijection avec les cellules de $(G/P)_{\geq 0}$. Dans les cas classiques, nous décrivons les Le-diagrammes explicitement en termes d'évitement de certains motifs. Aussi nous définissons un jeu sur les diagrammes, avec lequel on peut réduire un diagramme arbitraire à un Le-diagramme. Nous donnons les résultats énumératifs et nous relions nos Le-diagrammes à d'autres objets combinatoires. Étonnamment, les cellules non-négatives dans la cellule de Schubert ouverte des Grassmanniennes orthogonales impaires et paires sont essentiellement en bijection avec les fonctions de préférence et les fonctions de préférence atomiques.

scholarly journals Ascent Sequences Avoiding Pairs of Patterns

10.37236/4479 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Baxter ◽  
Lara K. Pudwell
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Avoidance ◽  
Exact Enumeration ◽  
Combinatorial Objects ◽  
Dyck Paths ◽  
Generating Trees ◽  
Precise Bound ◽  
Ascent Sequences ◽  
Pattern Avoiding Permutations

Ascent sequences were introduced by Bousquet-Melou et al. in connection with (2+2)-avoiding posets and their pattern avoidance properties were first considered by Duncan and Steingrímsson. In this paper, we consider ascent sequences of length $n$ avoiding two patterns of length 3, and we determine an exact enumeration for 16 different pairs of patterns. Methods include simple recurrences, bijections to other combinatorial objects (including Dyck paths and pattern-avoiding permutations), and generating trees. We also provide an analogue of the Erdős-Szekeres Theorem to prove that any sufficiently long ascent sequence contains either many copies of the same number or a long increasing subsequence, with a precise bound.

scholarly journals Pattern Avoidance by Even Permutations

10.37236/2024 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Baxter ◽  
Aaron D. Jaggard
Keyword(s):  
Symmetric Group ◽  
Pattern Avoidance ◽  
Alternating Group ◽  
Wilf Equivalence

We study questions of even-Wilf-equivalence, the analogue of Wilf-equivalence when attention is restricted to pattern avoidance by permutations in the alternating group. Although some Wilf-equivalence results break when considering even-Wilf-equivalence analogues, we prove that other Wilf-equivalence results continue to hold in the even-Wilf-equivalence setting. In particular, we prove that $t(t-1)\cdots 321$ and $(t-1)(t-2)\cdots 21t$ are even-shape-Wilf-equivalent for odd $t$, paralleling a result (which held for all $t$) of Backelin, West, and Xin for shape-Wilf-equivalence. This allows us to classify the symmetric group $\mathcal{S}_{4}$, and to partially classify $\mathcal{S}_{5}$ and $\mathcal{S}_{6}$, according to even-Wilf-equivalence. As with transition to involution-Wilf-equivalence, some—but not all—of the classical Wilf-equivalence results are preserved when we make the transition to even-Wilf-equivalence.

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