Sorting with two stacks in parallel

At the end of the 1960s, Knuth characterised in terms of forbidden patterns the permutations that can be sorted using a stack. He also showed that they are in bijection with Dyck paths and thus counted by the Catalan numbers. Subsequently, Pratt and Tarjan asked about permutations that can be sorted...

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Main Authors: Michael Albert, Mireille Bousquet-Mélou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2014-01-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
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Online Access:https://dmtcs.episciences.org/2425/pdf