Fertility numbers

DOI10.4310/JOC.2020.V11.N3.A6MaRDI QIDQ2188744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Colin Defant

Publication date 11 June 2020

Published in Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04421

zbMATH Keywords

fertilitystack-sortingvalid hook configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05)

Abstract: A nonnegative integer is called a fertility number if it is equal to the number of preimages of a permutation under West's stack-sorting map. We prove structural results concerning permutations, allowing us to deduce information about the set of fertility numbers. In particular, the set of fertility numbers is closed under multiplication and contains every nonnegative integer that is not congruent to $3$ modulo $4$. We show that the lower asymptotic density of the set of fertility numbers is at least $1954/2565approx0.7618$. We also exhibit some positive integers that are not fertility numbers and conjecture that there are infinitely many such numbers.

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