Modified growth diagrams, permutation pivots, and the BWX map ^

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Abstract: In their paper [1] on Wilf-equivalence for singleton classes, Backelin, Xin, and West introduce a transformation phi∗, defined by an iterative process and operating on (all) full rook placements on Ferrers boards. In [3], Bousquet-Macuteextrmelou and Steingracuteextrmimsson prove the analogue of the main result of [1] in the context of involutions, and in so doing they must prove that phi∗ commutes with the operation of taking inverses. The proof of this commutation result is long and difficult, and Bousquet-Macuteextrmelou and Steingracuteextrmimsson ask if phi∗ might be reformulated in such a way as to make this result obvious. In the present paper we provide such a reformulation of phi∗, by modifying the growth diagram algorithm of Fomin [4,5]. This also answers a question of Krattenthaler [6, problem 4], who notes that a bijection defined by the unmodified Fomin algorithm obviously commutes with inverses, and asks what the connection is between this bijection and phi∗.












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