Random patterns generated by random permutations of natural numbers

DOI10.1140/EPJST/E2007-00082-2MaRDI QIDQ6466086zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gleb Oshanin, Raphael Voituriez, S. Nechaev, Oleg A. Vasilyev, Florent Hivert

Publication date 27 September 2006

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1140/EPJST/E2007-00082-2

Abstract: We survey recent results on some one- and two-dimensional patterns generated by random permutations of natural numbers. In the first part, we discuss properties of random walks, evolving on a one-dimensional regular lattice in discrete time $n$, whose moves to the right or to the left are induced by the rise-and-descent sequence associated with a given random permutation. We determine exactly the probability of finding the trajectory of such a permutation-generated random walk at site $X$ at time $n$, obtain the probability measure of different excursions and define the asymptotic distribution of the number of "U-turns" of the trajectories - permutation "peaks" and "through". In the second part, we focus on some statistical properties of surfaces obtained by randomly placing natural numbers $1,2,3,>\mathrm{...},L$ on sites of a 1d or 2d square lattices containing $L$ sites. We calculate the distribution function of the number of local "peaks" - sites the number at which is larger than the numbers appearing at nearest-neighboring sites - and discuss some surprising collective behavior emerging in this model.

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