Shape Avoiding Permutations
Abstract
Description
Permutations avoiding all patterns of a given shape (in the sense of Robinson-Schensted-Knuth) are considered. We show that the shapes of all such permutations are contained in a suitable thick hook, and deduce an exponential growth rate for their number.
16 pages; final form, to appear in J. Combin. Theory, Series A
16 pages; final form, to appear in J. Combin. Theory, Series A