On pattern avoiding alternating permutations

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Abstract: An alternating permutation of length n is a permutation pi=pi1pi2...pin such that pi1<pi2>pi3<pi4>.... Let An denote set of alternating permutations of 1,2,...,n, and let An(sigma) be set of alternating permutations in An that avoid a pattern sigma. Recently, Lewis used generating trees to enumerate A2n(1234), A2n(2143) and A2n+1(2143), and he posed several conjectures on the Wilf-equivalence of alternating permutations avoiding certain patterns. Some of these conjectures have been proved by B'ona, Xu and Yan. In this paper, we prove the two relations |A2n+1(1243)|=|A2n+1(2143)| and |A2n(4312)|=|A2n(1234)| as conjectured by Lewis.









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