Enumeration of Factorizable Multi-Dimensional Permutations
Hao Zhang and Daniel Gildea
Department of Computer Science
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
USA
Abstract:
A d-dimensional permutation is a sequence of d+1 permutations
with the leading element being the identity permutation.
It can be viewed as an alignment structure across d+1 sequences, or
visualized as the result of permuting $n$ hypercubes of (d+1)
dimensions.
We study the hierarchical decomposition of d-dimensional permutations.
We show that when d >= 2, the ratio between non-decomposable or simple
d-permutations and all d-permutations approaches 1. We also prove
that the growth rate of the number of d-permutations
that can be factorized
into k-ary branching trees approaches (k/e)d as
k grows.
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(Concerned with sequences
A006318 and
A111111
.)
Received December 18 2006;
revised version received June 5 2007.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, June 5 2007.
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