Counting Occurrences of 132 in a Permutation

  • Authors:
  • Toufik Mansour;Alek Vainshtein

  • Affiliations:
  • LaBRI, Université Bordeaux 1, Talence Cedex, France, 33405f1toufik@labri.frf1;Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 31905f2alek@mathcs.haifa.ac.ilf2

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We study the generating function for the number of permutations on n letters containing exactly r=0 occurrences of 132. It is shown that finding this function for a given r amounts to a routine check of all permutations in S"2"r.