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    Crucial and bicrucial permutations with respect to arithmetic monotone patterns

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    A pattern Ο„\tau is a permutation, and an arithmetic occurrence of Ο„\tau in (another) permutation Ο€=Ο€1Ο€2...Ο€n\pi=\pi_1\pi_2...\pi_n is a subsequence Ο€i1Ο€i2...Ο€im\pi_{i_1}\pi_{i_2}...\pi_{i_m} of Ο€\pi that is order isomorphic to Ο„\tau where the numbers i1<i2<...<imi_1<i_2<...<i_m form an arithmetic progression. A permutation is (k,β„“)(k,\ell)-crucial if it avoids arithmetically the patterns 12...k12... k and β„“(β„“βˆ’1)...1\ell(\ell-1)... 1 but its extension to the right by any element does not avoid arithmetically these patterns. A (k,β„“)(k,\ell)-crucial permutation that cannot be extended to the left without creating an arithmetic occurrence of 12...k12... k or β„“(β„“βˆ’1)...1\ell(\ell-1)... 1 is called (k,β„“)(k,\ell)-bicrucial. In this paper we prove that arbitrary long (k,β„“)(k,\ell)-crucial and (k,β„“)(k,\ell)-bicrucial permutations exist for any k,β„“β‰₯3k,\ell\geq 3. Moreover, we show that the minimal length of a (k,β„“)(k,\ell)-crucial permutation is max⁑(k,β„“)(min⁑(k,β„“)βˆ’1)\max(k,\ell)(\min(k,\ell)-1), while the minimal length of a (k,β„“)(k,\ell)-bicrucial permutation is at most 2max⁑(k,β„“)(min⁑(k,β„“)βˆ’1)2\max(k,\ell)(\min(k,\ell)-1), again for k,β„“β‰₯3k,\ell\geq3
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