How many pop-stacks does it take to sort a permutation?

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Abstract: Pop-stacks are variants of stacks that were introduced by Avis and Newborn in 1981. Coincidentally, a 1982 result of Unger implies that every permutation of length n can be sorted by n-1 passes through a deterministic pop-stack. We give a new proof of this result inspired by Knuth's zero-one principle.














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