Restricted permutations and the wreath product

  • Authors:
  • M. D. Atkinson;T. Stitt

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand;School of Computer Science, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, UK

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Restricted permutations are those constrained by having to avoid subsequences ordered in various prescribed ways. A closed set is a set of permutations all satisfying a given basis set of restrictions. A wreath product construction is introduced and it is shown that this construction gives rise to a number of useful techniques for deciding the finite basis question and solving the enumeration problem. Several applications of these techniques are given.