Permutation Patterns

A collection of survey and research articles representing all the main strands of research in permutation patterns.

Steve Linton (Edited by), Nik Ruškuc (Edited by), Vincent Vatter (Edited by)

9780521728348, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 June 2010

352 pages, 55 b/w illus. 20 exercises
22.8 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.5 kg

"This well-written collection of research papers by international experts in the field covers all of the significant strands of current research, including structural methods and simple patterns, generalizations of patterns, various enumerative aspects, machines, and networks. I highly recommend this book to specialists and researchers in combinatorics. It should be noted that a few of the current problems in the field of permutation patterns are listed at the end of the book, which makes it a good starting point for future projects and dissertations."
Hamid R. Noori, Computing Reviews

The study of permutation patterns is a thriving area of combinatorics that relates to many other areas of mathematics, including graph theory, enumerative combinatorics, model theory, the theory of automata and languages, and bioinformatics. Arising from the Fifth International Conference on Permutation Patterns, held in St Andrews in June 2007, this volume contains a mixture of survey and research articles by leading experts, and includes the two invited speakers, Martin Klazar and Mike Atkinson. Together, the collected articles cover all the significant strands of current research: structural methods and simple patterns, generalisations of patterns, various enumerative aspects, machines and networks, packing, and more. Specialists in this area and other researchers in combinatorics and related fields will find much of interest in this book. In addition, the volume provides plenty of material accessible to advanced undergraduates and is a suitable reference for projects and dissertations.

Preface
1. Some general results in combinatorial enumeration Martin Klazar
2. A survey of simple permutations Robert Brignall
3. Permuting machines and permutation patterns Mike Atkinson
4. On three different notions of monotone subsequences Miklós Bóna
5. A survey on partially ordered patterns Sergey Kitaev
6. Generalized permutation patterns - a short survey Einar Steingrímsson
7. An introduction to structural methods in permutation patterns Michael Albert
8. Combinatorial properties of permutation tableaux Alexander Burstein and Niklas Eriksen
9. Enumeration schemes for words avoiding permutations Lara Pudwell
10. The lexicographic first occurrence of a I-II-III pattern Torey Burton, Anant P. Godbole and Brett M. Kindle
11. Enumeration of partitions by rises, levels and descents Toufik Mansour and Augustine O. Munagi
12. Restricted patience sorting and barred pattern avoidance Alexander Burstein and Isaiah Lankham
13. Permutations with k-regular descent patterns Anthony Mendes, Jeffrey B. Remmel and Amanda Riehl
14. Packing rates of measures and a conjecture for the packing density of 2413 Cathleen Battiste Presutti and Walter Stromquist
15. On the permutational power of token passing networks Michael Albert, Steve Linton and Nik R?skuc
16. Problems and conjectures.

Subject Areas: Algorithms & data structures [UMB], Discrete mathematics [PBD]