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(Cyclically) consecutive 123-avoiding permutations

Richard Ehrenborg

University of Kentucky
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics

When

Date: Friday, November 8, 2019
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Petty 150

A permutation =(1,…,n) is consecutive 123-avoiding if there is no index  such that 𝑖 < 𝑖+1 < 𝑖+2. Similarly, a permutation π is cyclically consecutive 123-avoiding if the indices are viewed modulo n. These two definitions extend to (cyclically) consecutive S-avoiding permutations, where S is some collection of permutations on m+1 elements. We determine the asymptotic behavior for the number of consecutive 123-avoiding permutations by studying an operator on the space L2([0,1]2). In fact, we obtain an asymptotic expansion for this number. Furthermore we obtain an exact expression for the number of cyclically consecutive 123-avoiding permutations. A few results will be stated about the general case of (cyclically) consecutive S-avoiding permutations. Part of these results are joint work with Sergey Kitaev and Peter Perry.