Sorting inversion sequences

Toufik Mansour, Howard Skogman, Rebecca Smith

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Abstract

We consider the avoidance of patterns in inversion sequences that relate sorting via sorting machines including data structures such as stacks and pop stacks. Such machines have been studied under a variety of additional constraints and generalizations, some of which we apply here. We give the classification of several classes of sortable inversion sequences in terms of pattern avoidance. We are able to provide an exact enumeration of some of the sortable classes in question using both classical approaches and a more recent strategy utilizing generating trees.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)1-2
Number of pages2
JournalDISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
Volume27
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

Keywords

  • generating tree
  • inversion sequence
  • permutation pattern
  • pop stack
  • sorting algorithm

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science
  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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