Periodic Points of Consecutive-Pattern-Avoiding Stack-Sorting Maps
Abstract
West's stack-sorting map involves a stack which avoids the permutation $21$ consecutively. Defant and Zheng extended this to a consecutive-pattern-avoiding stack-sorting map $SC_\sigma$, where the stack must always avoid a given permutation $\sigma$ consecutively. We address one of the main conjectures raised by Defant and Zheng in their dynamical approach to $SC_\sigma$. Specifically, we show that the periodic points of $SC_\sigma$ are precisely the permutations that consecutively avoid $\sigma$ and its reverse.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2308.05868
- Bibcode:
- 2023arXiv230805868S
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Combinatorics;
- Mathematics - Dynamical Systems;
- 05A05;
- 37E15
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 4 figures