A Bijection on Classes Enumerated by the Schröder Numbers

We consider a sorting machine consisting of two stacks in series where the first stack has the added restriction that entries in the stack must be in decreasing order from top to bottom. The class of permutations sortable by this machine are known to be enumerated by the Schröder numbers. In this pa...

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Main Authors: Michael W. Schroeder, Rebecca Smith
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Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2017-07-01
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description We consider a sorting machine consisting of two stacks in series where the first stack has the added restriction that entries in the stack must be in decreasing order from top to bottom. The class of permutations sortable by this machine are known to be enumerated by the Schröder numbers. In this paper, we give a bijection between these sortable permutations of length $n$ and Schröder paths -- the lattice paths from $(0,0)$ to $(n-1,n-1)$ composed of East steps $(1,0)$, North steps $(0,1)$, and Diagonal steps $(1,1)$ that travel weakly below the line $y=x$.
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spelling doaj.art-d9ddf14ef6e0468992586d32405e0ef02024-03-07T15:30:38ZengDiscrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer ScienceDiscrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science1365-80502017-07-01Vol. 18 no. 2, Permutation...Permutation Patterns10.46298/dmtcs.13261326A Bijection on Classes Enumerated by the Schröder NumbersMichael W. SchroederRebecca SmithWe consider a sorting machine consisting of two stacks in series where the first stack has the added restriction that entries in the stack must be in decreasing order from top to bottom. The class of permutations sortable by this machine are known to be enumerated by the Schröder numbers. In this paper, we give a bijection between these sortable permutations of length $n$ and Schröder paths -- the lattice paths from $(0,0)$ to $(n-1,n-1)$ composed of East steps $(1,0)$, North steps $(0,1)$, and Diagonal steps $(1,1)$ that travel weakly below the line $y=x$.https://dmtcs.episciences.org/1326/pdfmathematics - combinatorics05a05
spellingShingle Michael W. Schroeder
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A Bijection on Classes Enumerated by the Schröder Numbers
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title A Bijection on Classes Enumerated by the Schröder Numbers
title_full A Bijection on Classes Enumerated by the Schröder Numbers
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title_short A Bijection on Classes Enumerated by the Schröder Numbers
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