Excluded permutation matrices and the Stanley-Wilf conjecture

Adam Marcus; Gábor Tardos

doi:10.1016/j.jcta.2004.04.002

Excluded permutation matrices and the Stanley-Wilf conjecture

Adam Marcus, Gábor Tardos

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This paper examines the extremal problem of how many 1-entries an n×n 0-1 matrix can have that avoids a certain fixed submatrix P. For any permutation matrix P we prove a linear bound, settling a conjecture of Zoltán Füredi and Péter Hajnal (Discrete Math. 103(1992) 233). Due to the work of Martin Klazar (D. Krob, A.A. Mikhalev, A.V. Mikhalev (Eds.), Formal Power Series and Algebraics Combinatorics, Springer, Berlin, 2000, pp. 250-255), this also settles the conjecture of Stanley and Wilf on the number of n-permutations avoiding a fixed permutation and a related conjecture of Alon and Friedgut (J. Combin Theory Ser A 89(2000) 133).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	153-160
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A
Volume	107
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2004.04.002
State	Published - Jul 2004

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Theoretical Computer Science
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Computational Theory and Mathematics

Keywords

Extremal problems
Forbidden submatrices
Pattern avoidance
Stanley-Wilf conjecture

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