Finitely labeled generating trees and restricted permutations

  • Authors:
  • Vincent Vatter

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AJ, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Generating trees represent a useful technique in the enumeration of various combinatorial objects, particularly restricted permutations. Quite often the generating tree for the set of permutations avoiding a set of patterns requires infinitely many labels. Sometimes, however, this generating tree needs only finitely many labels. We characterize the finite sets of patterns for which this phenomenon occurs. We also present an algorithm - in fact, a special case of an algorithm of Zeilberger - that is guaranteed to find such a generating tree if it exists.