Year: 2022
Type: preprint
Abstract: Pop-Stack Sorting is an algorithm that takes a permutation as an input and sorts its elements. It consists of several steps. At one step, the algorithm reads the permutation it has to process from left to right and reverses each of its maximal decreasing subsequences of consecutive elements. It terminates at the first step that outputs the identity permutation. In this note, we answer a question of Defant on the running time of Pop-Stack Sorting on the uniform random permutation $σ_n$. More precisely, we show that there is a constant $c > 0.5$ such that asymptotically almost surely, the algorithm needs at least $cn$ steps to terminate on $σ_n$.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Lichev, Lyuben
Institution: Université Jean Monnet
Language: English
Subfield: Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4312051210