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Combinatorial Exploration: An Algorithmic Framework for Enumeration

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Michael Albert *
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Christian Bean
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Anders Claesson
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Émile Nadeau
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Jay Pantone
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Henning Úlfarsson
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Combinatorial Exploration is a new domain-agnostic algorithmic framework to automatically and rigorously study the structure of combinatorial objects and derive their counting sequences and generating functions. We describe how it works and provide an open-source Python implementation. As a prerequisite, we build up a new theoretical foundation for combinatorial decomposition strategies and combinatorial specifications. We then apply Combinatorial Exploration to the domain of permutation patterns, to great effect. We rederive hundreds of results in the literature in a uniform manner and prove many new ones. These results can be found in a new public database, the Permutation Pattern Avoidance Library (PermPAL) at https:// permpal.com. Finally, we give three additional proofs-of-concept, showing examples of how Combinatorial Exploration can prove results in the domains of alternating sign matrices, polyominoes, and set partitions.
Keywords:
STANLEY-WILF LIMIT
FORBIDDEN SUBSEQUENCES
PATTERN AVOIDANCE
SCHUBERT VARIETIES
CONVEX POLYOMINOES
GENERATING TREES
PERMUTATIONS
CLASSIFICATION
MATRICES
NUMBER

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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
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