Crossings and nestings in tangled diagrams (Q1010810)

Summary: A tangled diagram on \([n]=\{1,\dots,n\}\) is a labeled graph for which each vertex has degree at most two. The vertices are arranged in increasing order on a horizontal line and the arcs are drawn in the upper halfplane with a particular notion of crossings and nestings. Generalizing the construction of Chen et al., we give a bijection between generalized vacillating tableaux with less than \(k\) rows and \(k\)-noncrossing tangled diagrams. We show that the numbers of \(k\)-noncrossing and \(k\)-nonnesting tangled diagrams are equal and we enumerate \(k\)-noncrossing tangled diagrams. Finally, we show that braids, a special class of tangled diagrams, facilitate a bijection between 2-regular \(k\)-noncrossing partitions and \(k\)-noncrossing enhanced partitions.