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On three different notions of monotone subsequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2010

By
Miklós Bóna
Edited by
Steve Linton ,
Nik Ruškuc  and
Vincent Vatter
Miklós Bóna
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
Steve Linton
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Nik Ruškuc
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Vincent Vatter
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
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Abstract

We review how the monotone pattern compares to other patterns in terms of enumerative results on pattern avoiding permutations. We consider three natural definitions of pattern avoidance, give an overview of classic and recent formulas, and provide some new results related to limiting distributions.

Introduction

Monotone subsequences in a permutation p = p1p2 … pn have been the subject of vigorous research for over sixty years. In this paper, we will review three different lines of work. In all of them, we will consider increasing subsequences of a permutation of length n that have a fixed length k. This is in contrast to another line of work, started by Ulam more than sixty years ago, in which the distribution of the longest increasing subsequence of a random permutation has been studied. That direction of research has recently reached a high point in the article of Baik, Deift, and Johansson.

The three directions we consider are distinguished by their definition of monotone subsequences. We can simply require that k entries of a permutation increase from left to right, or we can in addition require that these k entries be in consecutive positions, or we can even require that they be consecutive integers and be in consecutive positions.

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Permutation Patterns , pp. 89 - 114
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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