(2+2)-free posets, ascent sequences and pattern avoiding permutations

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Hauptverfasser: Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille, Claesson, Anders, Dukes, Mark, Kitaev, Sergey
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author Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille
Claesson, Anders
Dukes, Mark
Kitaev, Sergey
author_facet Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille
Claesson, Anders
Dukes, Mark
Kitaev, Sergey
contents We present bijections between four classes of combinatorial objects. Two of them, the class of unlabeled (2+2)-free posets and a certain class of involutions (or chord diagrams), already appeared in the literature, but were apparently not known to be equinumerous. We present a direct bijection between them. The third class is a family of permutations defined in terms of a new type of pattern. An attractive property of these patterns is that, like classical patterns, they are closed under the action of $D_8$, the symmetry group of the square. The fourth class is formed by certain integer sequences, called ascent sequences, which have a simple recursive structure and are shown to encode (2+2)-free posets and permutations. Our bijections preserve numerous statistics. We determine the generating function of these classes of objects, thus recovering a non-D-finite series obtained by Zagier for the class of chord diagrams. Finally, we characterize the ascent sequences that correspond to permutations avoiding the barred pattern $3{\bar 1}52{\bar 4}$ and use this to enumerate those permutations, thereby settling a conjecture of Pudwell.
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spellingShingle (2+2)-free posets, ascent sequences and pattern avoiding permutations
Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille
Claesson, Anders
Dukes, Mark
Kitaev, Sergey
Combinatorics
We present bijections between four classes of combinatorial objects. Two of them, the class of unlabeled (2+2)-free posets and a certain class of involutions (or chord diagrams), already appeared in the literature, but were apparently not known to be equinumerous. We present a direct bijection between them. The third class is a family of permutations defined in terms of a new type of pattern. An attractive property of these patterns is that, like classical patterns, they are closed under the action of $D_8$, the symmetry group of the square. The fourth class is formed by certain integer sequences, called ascent sequences, which have a simple recursive structure and are shown to encode (2+2)-free posets and permutations. Our bijections preserve numerous statistics. We determine the generating function of these classes of objects, thus recovering a non-D-finite series obtained by Zagier for the class of chord diagrams. Finally, we characterize the ascent sequences that correspond to permutations avoiding the barred pattern $3{\bar 1}52{\bar 4}$ and use this to enumerate those permutations, thereby settling a conjecture of Pudwell.
title (2+2)-free posets, ascent sequences and pattern avoiding permutations
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0666