Sorting with a popqueue

Author:

Cioni Lapo,Ferrari Luca

Abstract

We introduce a new sorting device for permutations, which we call popqueue. It consists of a special queue, having the property that any time one wants to extract elements from the queue, actually all the elements currently in the queue are poured into the output. We illustrate two distinct optimal algorithms, called Min and Cons, to sort a permutation using such a device, which allow us also to characterize sortable permutations in terms of pattern avoidance. We next investigate what happens by making two passes through a popqueue, showing that the set of sortable permutations is not a class for Min, whereas it is for Cons. In the latter case we also explicitly find the basis of the class of sortable permutations. Finally, we study preimages under Cons (by means of an equivalent version of the algorithm), and find a characterization of the set of preimages of a given permutation. We also give some enumerative results concerning the number of permutations having k preimages, for k = 1, 2, 3, and we conclude by observing that there exist permutations having k preimages for any value of k ≥ 0.

Publisher

EDP Sciences

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