Avoiding patterns in irreducible permutations

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TitreAvoiding patterns in irreducible permutations
Type de publicationJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuteursBaril J-L
JournalDISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
Volume17
Pagination13-30
Type of ArticleArticle
ISSN1462-7264
Mots-clésinvolution, irreducible permutation, Motzkin path, Pattern avoiding permutation, succession
Résumé

We explore the classical pattern avoidance question in the case of irreducible permutations, i.e., those in which there is no index i such that sigma( i + 1) - sigma( i) = 1. The problem is addressed completely in the case of avoiding one or two patterns of length three, and several well known sequences are encountered in the process, such as Catalan, Motzkin, Fibonacci, Tribonacci, Padovan and Binary numbers. Also, we present constructive bijections between the set of Motzkin paths of length n - 1 and the sets of irreducible permutations of length n ( respectively fixed point free irreducible involutions of length 2 n) avoiding a pattern alpha for alpha is an element of {132, 213, 321}. This induces two new bijections between the set of Dyck paths and some restricted sets of permutations.