Anders Claesson ; Henning Úlfarsson - Sorting and preimages of pattern classes

dmtcs:3066 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2012, DMTCS Proceedings vol. AR, 24th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2012) - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3066
Sorting and preimages of pattern classesArticle

Authors: Anders Claesson 1; Henning Úlfarsson 2

  • 1 Department of Computer and Information Sciences [Univ Strathclyde]
  • 2 School of Computer Science [Reykjavik]

We introduce an algorithm to determine when a sorting operation, such as stack-sort or bubble-sort, outputs a given pattern. The algorithm provides a new proof of the description of West-2-stack-sortable permutations, that is permutations that are completely sorted when passed twice through a stack, in terms of patterns. We also solve the long-standing problem of describing West-3-stack-sortable permutations. This requires a new type of generalized permutation pattern we call a decorated pattern.


Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AR, 24th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2012)
Section: Proceedings
Published on: January 1, 2012
Imported on: January 31, 2017
Keywords: Permutation Patterns, Sorting algorithms,[INFO.INFO-DM] Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]

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