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Young tableaux and longest monotone subsequences: An inequality and a conjecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

A. D. Gordon
A. D. Gordon
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Department of StatisticsUniversity of St. Andrews
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Much work has been done on the following problem, which is sometimes referred to as Ulam's problem: what is the distribution of , the length (i.e. number of terms) of a longest monotone increasing [decreasing] subsequence of (not necessarily consecutive) terms in a random permutation of the first N integers? For example, it has been shown that converges almost surely to 2 [6,7,9]. In some cases, it is important to know the value of βN(j), the number of permutations for which αN=j

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , October 1984 , pp. 341 - 344
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1984

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