A pattern theorem for random sorting networks

A sorting network is a shortest path from 12⋯n to n⋯21 in the Cayley graph of the symmetric group S[subscript n] generated by nearest-neighbor swaps. A pattern is a sequence of swaps that forms an initial segment of some sorting network. We prove that in a uniformly random n-element sorting network,...

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Main Authors: Angel, Omer (Author), Gorin, Vadim (Contributor), Holroyd, Alexander E (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2014-09-15T14:57:23Z.
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520 |a A sorting network is a shortest path from 12⋯n to n⋯21 in the Cayley graph of the symmetric group S[subscript n] generated by nearest-neighbor swaps. A pattern is a sequence of swaps that forms an initial segment of some sorting network. We prove that in a uniformly random n-element sorting network, any fixed pattern occurs in at least cn[superscript 2] disjoint space-time locations, with probability tending to 1 exponentially fast as n→∞. Here c is a positive constant which depends on the choice of pattern. As a consequence, the probability that the uniformly random sorting network is geometrically realizable tends to 0. 
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520 |a Murmansk State Humanities University ("Development of the scientific potential of the higher school") 
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