A structural characterisation of Av(1324) and new bounds on its growth rate
Bevan, David and Brignall, Robert and Elvey Price, Andrew and Pantone, Jay (2020) A structural characterisation of Av(1324) and new bounds on its growth rate. European Journal of Combinatorics, 88. 103115. ISSN 0195-6698
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Abstract
We establish an improved lower bound of 10.271 for the exponential growth rate of the class of permutations avoiding the pattern 1324, and an improved upper bound of 13.5. These results depend on a new exact structural characterisation of 1324-avoiders as a subclass of an infinite staircase grid class, together with precise asymptotics of a small domino subclass whose enumeration we relate to West-two-stack-sortable permutations and planar maps. The bounds are established by carefully combining copies of the dominoes in particular ways consistent with the structural characterisation. The lower bound depends on concentration results concerning the substructure of a typical domino, the determination of exactly when dominoes can be combined in the fewest distinct ways, and technical analysis of the resulting generating function.
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Bevan, David
Item type: Article ID code: 67764 Dates: DateEvent31 August 2020Published25 March 2020Published Online17 April 2019AcceptedKeywords: permutation patterns, growth rate, asymptotic enumeration, Av(1324), Mathematics, Electronic computers. Computer science, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Computer Science(all) Subjects: Science > Mathematics
Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer scienceDepartment: Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 13 May 2019 11:12 Last modified: 25 Mar 2021 02:11 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/67764