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A logical limit law for $231$-avoiding permutations

Michael Albert, Mathilde Bouvel, Valentin Féray, Marc Noy
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August 22, 2023
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December 22, 2023
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April 2, 2024
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March 27, 2025
Special issue 26
vol. 26:1, Permutation Patterns 2023
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10.46298/dmtcs.11751
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A logical limit law for $231$-avoiding permutations

Michael Albert, Mathilde Bouvel, Valentin Féray, Marc Noy
Abstract
We prove that the class of 231-avoiding permutations satisfies a logical limit law, i.e. that for any first-order sentence $\Psi$, in the language of two total orders, the probability $p_{n,\Psi}$ that a uniform random 231-avoiding permutation of size $n$ satisfies $\Psi$ admits a limit as $n$ is large. Moreover, we establish two further results about the behavior and value of $p_{n,\Psi}$: (i) it is either bounded away from $0$, or decays exponentially fast; (ii) the set of possible limits is dense in $[0,1]$. Our tools come mainly from analytic combinatorics and singularity analysis. Comment: 15 pages; version 3 is the final version, ready for publication in DMTCS
Keywords
  • Mathematics - Combinatorics
  • Mathematics - Probability
  • 05A16, 60C05 (primary), 03C13 (secondary)
Mathematics Subject Classification 2020
  • 05A05 - Permutations, words, matrices
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