Year: 2023
Type: preprint
Abstract: We study a link between complete non-ambiguous trees (CNATs) and permutations exhibited by Daniel Chen and Sebastian Ohlig in recent work. In this, they associate a certain permutation to the leaves of a CNAT, and show that the number of $n$-permutations that are associated with exactly one CNAT is $2^{n-2}$. We connect this to work by the first author and co-authors linking complete non-ambiguous trees and the acyclic orientation number of the associated permutation graph. This allows us to prove a number of conjectures by Chen and Ohlig on the number of $n$-permutations that are associated with exactly $k$ CNATs for various $k > 1$, via various bijective correspondences between such permutations. We also exhibit a new bijection between $(n-1)$-permutations and CNATs whose permutation is the decreasing permutation $n(n-1)\cdots1$. This bijection maps the left-to-right minima of the permutation to dots on the top row of the corresponding CNAT, and descents of the permutation to empty rows of the CNAT.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Selig, Thomas, Zhu, Haoyue
Language: English
Subfield: Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G9973419
OpenAlex ID: W4361230838