Permutation Patterns

Steve Linton is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where he directs the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra. Nik Ruškuc is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Vincent Vatter is a John Wesley Young Instructor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

Preface; 1. Some general results in combinatorial enumeration Martin Klazar; 2. A survey of simple permutations Robert Brignall; 3. Permuting machines and permutation patterns Mike Atkinson; 4. On three different notions of monotone subsequences Miklós Bóna; 5. A survey on partially ordered patterns Sergey Kitaev; 6. Generalized permutation patterns - a short survey Einar Steingrímsson; 7. An introduction to structural methods in permutation patterns Michael Albert; 8. Combinatorial properties of permutation tableaux Alexander Burstein and Niklas Eriksen; 9. Enumeration schemes for words avoiding permutations Lara Pudwell; 10. The lexicographic first occurrence of a I-II-III pattern Torey Burton, Anant P. Godbole and Brett M. Kindle; 11. Enumeration of partitions by rises, levels and descents Toufik Mansour and Augustine O. Munagi; 12. Restricted patience sorting and barred pattern avoidance Alexander Burstein and Isaiah Lankham; 13. Permutations with k-regular descent patterns Anthony Mendes, Jeffrey B. Remmel and Amanda Riehl; 14. Packing rates of measures and a conjecture for the packing density of 2413 Cathleen Battiste Presutti and Walter Stromquist; 15. On the permutational power of token passing networks Michael Albert, Steve Linton and Nik Rŭskuc; 16. Problems and conjectures.