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restricted 1-3-2 permutations and generalized patterns

T. Mansour

math.COarXiv:math/0110039

Abstract

Recently, Babson and Steingrimsson (see [BS]) introduced generalized permutations patterns that allow the requirement that two adjacent letters in a pattern must be adjacent in the permutation. We study generating functions for the number of permutations on n letters avoiding 1-3-2 (or containing 1-3-2 exactly once) and an arbitrary generalized pattern τ on k letters, or containing τ exactly once. In several cases the generating function depends only on k and is expressed via Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind, and generating function of Motzkin numbers.

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