Combinatorial Exploration: An algorithmic framework for enumeration

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Main Authors: Albert, Michael H., Bean, Christian, Claesson, Anders, Nadeau, Émile, Pantone, Jay, Ulfarsson, Henning
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Published: 2022
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author Albert, Michael H.
Bean, Christian
Claesson, Anders
Nadeau, Émile
Pantone, Jay
Ulfarsson, Henning
author_facet Albert, Michael H.
Bean, Christian
Claesson, Anders
Nadeau, Émile
Pantone, Jay
Ulfarsson, Henning
contents Combinatorial Exploration is a new domain-agnostic algorithmic framework to automatically and rigorously study the structure of combinatorial objects and derive their counting sequences and generating functions. We describe how it works and provide an open-source Python implementation. As a prerequisite, we build up a new theoretical foundation for combinatorial decomposition strategies and combinatorial specifications. We then apply Combinatorial Exploration to the domain of permutation patterns, to great effect. We rederive hundreds of results in the literature in a uniform manner and prove many new ones. These results can be found in a new public database, the Permutation Pattern Avoidance Library (PermPAL) at https://permpal.com. Finally, we give three additional proofs-of-concept, showing examples of how Combinatorial Exploration can prove results in the domains of alternating sign matrices, polyominoes, and set partitions.
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spellingShingle Combinatorial Exploration: An algorithmic framework for enumeration
Albert, Michael H.
Bean, Christian
Claesson, Anders
Nadeau, Émile
Pantone, Jay
Ulfarsson, Henning
Combinatorics
Combinatorial Exploration is a new domain-agnostic algorithmic framework to automatically and rigorously study the structure of combinatorial objects and derive their counting sequences and generating functions. We describe how it works and provide an open-source Python implementation. As a prerequisite, we build up a new theoretical foundation for combinatorial decomposition strategies and combinatorial specifications. We then apply Combinatorial Exploration to the domain of permutation patterns, to great effect. We rederive hundreds of results in the literature in a uniform manner and prove many new ones. These results can be found in a new public database, the Permutation Pattern Avoidance Library (PermPAL) at https://permpal.com. Finally, we give three additional proofs-of-concept, showing examples of how Combinatorial Exploration can prove results in the domains of alternating sign matrices, polyominoes, and set partitions.
title Combinatorial Exploration: An algorithmic framework for enumeration
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07715