Using Zeilberger’s factorization of two-stack-sortable permutations, we write a functional equation — of a strange sort — that defines their generating function according t...
Several authors have examined connections between permutations which avoid 132, continued fractions, and Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind. In this paper we prove analogues...
Abstract. Consider, for a permutation Sk, the number F(n, ) of permutations in Sn which avoid as a subpattern. The conjecture of Stanley and Wilf is that for every there is a c...
Given an integer s 0 and a permutation Sn, let ,s be the graph on n vertices {1, . . . , n} where two vertices i < j are adjacent if the permutation flips their order and th...
Suppose xm + axn is a permutation polynomial over Fp, where p > 5 is prime and m > n > 0 and a ∈ F∗ p. We prove that gcd(m−n, p−1) /∈ {2, 4}. In the special cas...