Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
428138 Information Processing Letters 2009 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

We show that the set of permutations sortable by k pop stacks in parallel has a regular insertion encoding and construct the (finite) recognizing automaton for this language. This shows that these permutations have a rational generating function, verifying a conjecture of Atkinson and Sack.

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