Limit densities of patterns in permutation inflations (Q2223480)

Summary: Call a permutation \(k\)-inflatable if the sequence of its tensor products with uniform random permutations of increasing lengths has uniform \(k\)-point pattern densities. Previous work has shown that nontrivial \(k\)-inflatable permutations do not exist for \(k \geqslant 4\). In this paper, we derive a general formula for the limit densities of patterns in the sequence of tensor products of a fixed permutation with each permutation from a convergent sequence. By applying this result, we completely characterize 3-inflatable permutations and find explicit examples of 3-inflatable permutations with various lengths, including the shortest examples with length 17.