132-avoiding Two-stack Sortable Permutations, Fibonacci Numbers, and Pell Numbers

dc.creatorEgge, Eric S.
dc.creatorMansour, Toufik
dc.date2002-05-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:48:35Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:48:35Z
dc.descriptionIn 1990 West conjectured that there are $2(3n)!/((n+1)!(2n+1)!)$ two-stack sortable permutations on $n$ letters. This conjecture was proved analytically by Zeilberger in 1992. Later, Dulucq, Gire, and Guibert gave a combinatorial proof of this conjecture. In the present paper we study generating functions for the number of two-stack sortable permutations on $n$ letters avoiding (or containing exactly once) 132 and avoiding (or containing exactly once) an arbitrary permutation $τ$ on $k$ letters. In several interesting cases this generating function can be expressed in terms of the generating function for the Fibonacci numbers or the generating function for the Pell numbers.
dc.description17 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0205206
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0205206
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/64105
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject05A15
dc.title132-avoiding Two-stack Sortable Permutations, Fibonacci Numbers, and Pell Numbers
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