Pattern classes of permutations via bijections between linearly ordered sets

  • Authors:
  • Sophie Huczynska;Nik Ruškuc

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, KY 16 9SS, United Kingdom;School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, KY 16 9SS, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A pattern class is a set of permutations closed under pattern involvement or, equivalently, defined by certain subsequence avoidance conditions. Any pattern class X which is atomic, i.e. indecomposable as a union of proper subclasses, has a representation as the set of subpermutations of a bijection between two countable (or finite) linearly ordered sets A and B. Concentrating on the situation where A is arbitrary and B=N, we demonstrate how the order-theoretic properties of A determine the structure of X and we establish results about independence, contiguity and subrepresentations for classes admitting multiple representations of this form.