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Turkish Journal of Analysis and Number Theory. 2017, 5(6), 210-225
DOI: 10.12691/tjant-5-6-3
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Enumeration of 2-Wilf Classes of Four 4-letter Patterns

David Callan1 and Toufik Mansour2,

1Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Pub. Date: November 03, 2017

Cite this paper:
David Callan and Toufik Mansour. Enumeration of 2-Wilf Classes of Four 4-letter Patterns. Turkish Journal of Analysis and Number Theory. 2017; 5(6):210-225. doi: 10.12691/tjant-5-6-3

Abstract

Let Sn be the symmetric group of all permutations of n letters. We show that there are precisely 64 Wilf classes consisting of exactly 2 symmetry classes of subsets of four 4-letter patterns.

Keywords:
pattern avoidance Wilf-equivalence

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