Universal limits of substitution-closed permutation classes

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Abstract: We consider uniform random permutations in proper substitution-closed classes and study their limiting behavior in the sense of permutons. The limit depends on the generating series of the simple permutations in the class. Under a mild sufficient condition, the limit is an elementary one-parameter deformation of the limit of uniform separable permutations, previously identified as the Brownian separable permuton. This limiting object is therefore in some sense universal. We identify two other regimes with different limiting objects. The first one is degenerate; the second one is nontrivial and related to stable trees. These results are obtained thanks to a characterization of the convergence of random permutons through the convergence of their expected pattern densities. The limit of expected pattern densities is then computed by using the substitution tree encoding of permutations and performing singularity analysis on the tree series.


This paper is about limiting objects of permutations whose building blocks are the so-called simple permutations: these are the permutations of the set \(\{1,\ldots, n\}\) that do not map an interval in another interval. The paper utilises a decomposition of a permutation into simple permutations under a certain set of rules. A key observation that facilitates the analysis is that this decomposition can be represented by a tree. The main result of this paper is about the limiting object of a random permutation that is sampled uniformly among all permutations that are generated by simple permutation of a given class. Under a certain condition on the generating function (and its radius of convergence) of this class, the authors show that the associated permuton of such a random permutation converges weakly (as a measure on \([0,1]^2\)) to the so-called biased Brownian permuton, which is introduced in the paper. It is characterised by specific frequencies of permutations of any fixed length \(\geq 2\). This notion is a generalisation of the unbiased Brownian permuton which was introduced by (a subset of) the authors in earlier work.



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