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A closed formula for the number of convex permutominoes
In this paper we determine a closed formula for the number of convex
permutominoes of size n. We reach this goal by providing a recursive generation
of all convex permutominoes of size n+1 from the objects of size n, according
to the ECO method, and then translating this construction into a system of
functional equations satisfied by the generating function of convex
permutominoes. As a consequence we easily obtain also the enumeration of some
classes of convex polyominoes, including stack and directed convex
permutominoes
The number of directed k-convex polyominoes
We present a new method to obtain the generating functions for directed
convex polyominoes according to several different statistics including: width,
height, size of last column/row and number of corners. This method can be used
to study different families of directed convex polyominoes: symmetric
polyominoes, parallelogram polyominoes. In this paper, we apply our method to
determine the generating function for directed k-convex polyominoes. We show it
is a rational function and we study its asymptotic behavior
Enumeration of polyominoes defined in terms of pattern avoidance or convexity constraints
In this thesis, we consider the problem of characterizing and enumerating
sets of polyominoes described in terms of some constraints, defined either by
convexity or by pattern containment. We are interested in a well known subclass
of convex polyominoes, the k-convex polyominoes for which the enumeration
according to the semi-perimeter is known only for k=1,2. We obtain, from a
recursive decomposition, the generating function of the class of k-convex
parallelogram polyominoes, which turns out to be rational. Noting that this
generating function can be expressed in terms of the Fibonacci polynomials, we
describe a bijection between the class of k-parallelogram polyominoes and the
class of planted planar trees having height less than k+3. In the second part
of the thesis we examine the notion of pattern avoidance, which has been
extensively studied for permutations. We introduce the concept of pattern
avoidance in the context of matrices, more precisely permutation matrices and
polyomino matrices. We present definitions analogous to those given for
permutations and in particular we define polyomino classes, i.e. sets downward
closed with respect to the containment relation. So, the study of the old and
new properties of the redefined sets of objects has not only become
interesting, but it has also suggested the study of the associated poset. In
both approaches our results can be used to treat open problems related to
polyominoes as well as other combinatorial objects.Comment: PhD thesi
Maximal increasing sequences in fillings of almost-moon polyominoes
It was proved by Rubey that the number of fillings with zeros and ones of a
given moon polyomino that do not contain a northeast chain of size depends
only on the set of columns of the polyomino, but not the shape of the
polyomino. Rubey's proof is an adaption of jeu de taquin and promotion for
arbitrary fillings of moon polyominoes. In this paper we present a bijective
proof for this result by considering fillings of almost-moon polyominoes, which
are moon polyominoes after removing one of the rows. Explicitly, we construct a
bijection which preserves the size of the largest northeast chains of the
fillings when two adjacent rows of the polyomino are exchanged. This bijection
also preserves the column sum of the fillings. We also present a bijection that
preserves the size of the largest northeast chains, the row sum and the column
sum if every row of the fillings has at most one 1.Comment: 18 page
A polyominoes-permutations injection and tree-like convex polyominoes
AbstractPlane polyominoes are edge-connected sets of cells on the orthogonal lattice Z2, considered identical if their cell sets are equal up to an integral translation. We introduce a novel injection from the set of polyominoes with n cells to the set of permutations of [n], and classify the families of convex polyominoes and tree-like convex polyominoes as classes of permutations that avoid some sets of forbidden patterns. By analyzing the structure of the respective permutations of the family of tree-like convex polyominoes, we are able to find the generating function of the sequence that enumerates this family, conclude that this sequence satisfies the linear recurrence an=6an−1−14an−2+16an−3−9an−4+2an−5, and compute the closed-form formula an=2n+2−(n3−n2+10n+4)/2
A family of classes in nested chain abacus and related generating functions
Abacus model has been employed widely to represent partitions for any positive integer. However, no study has been carried out to develop connected beads of abacus in graphical representation for discrete objects. To resolve this connectedness problem this study is oriented in characterising n - connected objects knows as n connected ominoes, which then generate nested chain abacus. Furthermore, the theoretical conceptual properties for the nested chain abacus are being formulated. Along the construction, three different types of transformation are being created that are essential in building a family of classes. To enhance further, based on theses classes, generating functions are also being formulated by employing enumeration of combinatorial objects (ECO). In ECO method, each object is obtained from smaller object by making some local expansions. These local expansions are described in a simple way by a succession rule which can be translated into a function equation for the generating function. In summary, this stud has succeeded in producing novel graphical representation of nested chain abacus, which can be applied in tiling finite grid
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