Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4655432 Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 2013 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

For each integer k⩾2k⩾2, let F(k)F(k) denote the largest n   for which there exists a permutation σ∈Snσ∈Sn all of whose patterns of length k   are distinct. We prove that F(k)=k+⌊2k−3⌋+ϵk, where εk∈{−1,0}εk∈{−1,0} for every k. We conjecture an even more precise result, based on data for small values of k.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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