Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-15-2016
Journal Title
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Volume
18
Issue
2
Abstract
We investigate pattern avoidance in permutations satisfying some additional restrictions. These are naturally considered in terms of avoiding patterns in linear extensions of certain forestlike partially ordered sets, which we call binary shrub forests. In this context, we enumerate forests avoiding patterns of length three. In four of the five non-equivalent cases, we present explicit enumerations by exhibiting bijections with certain lattice paths bounded above by the line y = `x, for some ` ∈ Q+, one of these being the celebrated Duchon’s club paths with ` = 2/3. In the remaining case, we use the machinery of analytic combinatorics to determine the minimal polynomial of its generating function, and deduce its growth rate.
Recommended Citation
Bevan, D., Levin, D., Nugent, P., Pantone, J., Pudwell, L., Riehl, M., & Tlachac, M. L. (2016). Pattern avoidance in forests of binary shrubs. Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 18(2).