On avoidance of patterns of the form σ-τ by words over a finite alphabet

Vincular or dashed patterns resemble classical patterns except that some of the letters within an occurrence are required to be adjacent. We prove several infinite families of Wilf-equivalences for $k$-ary words involving vincular patterns containing a single dash, which explain the majority of the...

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Main Authors: Toufik Mansour, Mark Shattuck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2015-09-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
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Online Access:https://dmtcs.episciences.org/2140/pdf