A spectral approach to consecutive pattern-avoiding permutations

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DOI10.4310/JOC.2011.V2.N3.A1zbMATH Open1247.05013arXiv1009.2119MaRDI QIDQ446004FDOQ446004


Authors: Richard Ehrenborg, Sergey Kitaev, Peter Perry Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 28 August 2012

Published in: Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the problem of enumerating permutations in the symmetric group on n elements which avoid a given set of consecutive pattern S, and in particular computing asymptotics as n tends to infinity. We develop a general method which solves this enumeration problem using the spectral theory of integral operators on L2([0,1]m), where the patterns in S has length m+1. Kreu{i}n and Rutman's generalization of the Perron--Frobenius theory of non-negative matrices plays a central role. Our methods give detailed asymptotic expansions and allow for explicit computation of leading terms in many cases. As a corollary to our results, we settle a conjecture of Warlimont on asymptotics for the number of permutations avoiding a consecutive pattern.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2119




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