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We introduce the Aurellion Function, a novel recursively defined fast-growing hierarchy based on Knuth's up-arrow notation, defined by $A_1 = 10 \uparrow\uparrow\uparrow 10$, $A_{n+1} = 10 \uparrow^{A_n} 10$, where the number of arrows in the operation increases superexponentially with $n$. We analyze its growth rate relative to classical hierarchies such as the fast-growing hierarchy $(f_α)_{α< \varepsilon_0}$, and discuss its provability status in formal arithmetic. We provide formal bounds showing $A_n$ dominates all functions provably total in Peano Arithmetic, situating the Aurellion Function near the proof-theoretic ordinal $Γ_0$ due to its ability to majorize all functions $f_α$ for $α< \varepsilon_0$. We also outline possible transfinite extensions indexed by countable ordinals, thus bridging symbolic large-number constructions and ordinal analysis.
Graham, Knuth and Patashnik in their book Concrete Mathematics called for development of a general theory of the solutions of recurrences defined by $$\left|{ n\atop k}\right|=(αn+βk+γ)\left|{n-1\atop k}\right|+(α' n+β' k+γ')\left|{n-1\atop k-1}\right|+I_{n=k=0}$$ for $0\le k\le n$ and six parameters $α,β,γ,α'β',γ'$. Since then, a number of authors investigated various properties of the solutions of these recurrences. In this note we consider a probabilistic aspect, namely we consider the limiting distributions of sequences of integer valued random variables naturally associated with the solutions of such recurrences. We will give a complete description of the limiting behavior when $α'=0$ and the remaining five parameters are non--negative.
In our previous work we have introduced an analogue of Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence for Schubert calculus of the complete flag varieties. The objects inserted are certain biwords, the outcomes of insertion are bumpless pipe dreams, and the recording objects are decorated chains in Bruhat order. In this paper we study a class of biwords that have a certain associativity property; we call them plactic biwords. We introduce analogues of Knuth moves on plactic biwords, and prove that any two plactic biwords with the same insertion bumpless pipe dream are connected by those moves.
A K-theoretic analogue of RSK insertion and Knuth equivalence relations was first introduced in 2006 by Buch, Kresch, Shimozono, Tamvakis, and Yong. The resulting K-Knuth equivalence relations on words and increasing tableaux on [n] has prompted investigation into the equivalence classes of tableaux arising from these relations. Of particular interest are the tableaux that are unique in their class, which we refer to as unique rectification targets (URTs). In this paper we give several new families of URTs and a bound on the length of intermediate words connecting two K-Knuth equivalent words. In addition, we describe an algorithm to determine if two words are K-Knuth equivalent and to compute all K-Knuth equivalence classes of tableaux on [n].
Following Janson's method, we prove a conjecture of Knuth: the numbers of forward and back arcs for the depth-first search (DFS) in a digraph with a geometric outdegree distribution have the same distribution.
Donald Knuth introduced in The Art of Computer Programming (Vol 4a) a fast approximation to the addition of integers (given in binary) in terms of bit-wise operations by $a + b \; \approx \; a \oplus b \oplus ((a\land b) \ll 1).$ Generalizing this to infinite bit-strings we get a binary operation on ${\mathcal P}(\mathbb{N})$, the power-set of $\mathbb{N}$ (which we identify with the collection of infinite bit-strings). We show that this operation is ``group-like'' in that it has a neutral element, inverses, but it is not associative. There are a lot of questions left, which the author has not been able to answer.
The well-known middle levels conjecture asserts that for every integer $n\geq 1$, all binary strings of length $2(n+1)$ with exactly $n+1$ many 0s and 1s can be ordered cyclically so that any two consecutive strings differ in swapping the first bit with a complementary bit at some later position. In his book `The Art of Computer Programming Vol. 4A' Knuth raised a stronger form of this conjecture (Problem 56 in Chapter 7, Section 2.1.3), which requires that the sequence of positions with which the first bit is swapped in each step of such an ordering has $2n+1$ blocks of the same length, and each block is obtained by adding $s=1$ (modulo $2n+1$) to the previous block. In this work, we prove Knuth's conjecture in a more general form, allowing for arbitrary shifts $s\geq 1$ that are coprime to $2n+1$. We also present an algorithm to compute this ordering, generating each new bitstring in $\mathcal{O}(n)$ time, using $\mathcal{O}(n)$ memory in total.
We show the NP-completeness of the existential theory of term algebras with the Knuth-Bendix order by giving a nondeterministic polynomial-time algorithm for solving Knuth-Bendix ordering constraints.
We give a geometric interpretation of the Knuth equivalence relations in terms of the affine Graß mann variety. The Young tableaux are seen as sequences of coweights, called galleries. We show that to any gallery corresponds a Mirković-Vilonen cycle and that two galleries are equivalent if, and only if, their associated MV cycles are equal. Words are naturally identified to some galleries. So, as a corollary, we obtain that two words are Knuth equivalent if, and only if, their associated MV cycles are equal.
In each of the three projective planes coordinatised by the Knuth's binary semifield $\mathbb{K}_n$ of order $2^n$ and two of its Knuth derivatives, we exhibit a new family of infinitely many translation hyperovals. In particular, when $n=5$, we also present complete lists of all translation hyperovals in them. The properties of some designs associated with these hyperovals are also studied.
Compiling quantum circuits lends itself to an elegant formulation in the language of rewriting systems on non commutative polynomial algebras $\mathbb Q\langle X\rangle$. The alphabet $X$ is the set of the allowed hardware 2-qubit gates. The set of gates that we wish to implement from $X$ are elements of a free monoid $X^*$ (obtained by concatenating the letters of $X$). In this setting, compiling an idealized gate is equivalent to computing its unique normal form with respect to the rewriting system $\mathcal R\subset \mathbb Q\langle X\rangle$ that encodes the hardware constraints and capabilities. This system $\mathcal R$ is generated using two different mechanisms: 1) using the Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm on the algebra $\mathbb Q\langle X\rangle$, and 2) using the Buchberger algorithm on the shuffle algebra $\mathbb Q[L]$ where $L$ is the set of Lyndon words on $X$.
A simple scheme was proposed by Knuth to generate binary balanced codewords from any information word. However, this method is limited in the sense that its redundancy is twice that of the full sets of balanced codes. The gap between Knuth's algorithm's redundancy and that of the full sets of balanced codes is significantly considerable. This paper attempts to reduce that gap. Furthermore, many constructions assume that a full balancing can be performed without showing the steps. A full balancing refers to the overall balancing of the encoded information together with the prefix. We propose an efficient way to perform a full balancing scheme that does not make use of lookup tables or enumerative coding.
A coplactic class in the symmetric group S_n consists of all permutations in S_n with a given Schensted Q-symbol, and may be described in terms of local relations introduced by Knuth. Any Lie element in the group algebra of S_n which is constant on coplactic classes is already constant on descent classes. As a consequence, the intersection of the Lie convolution algebra introduced by Patras and Reutenauer and the coplactic algebra introduced by Poirier and Reutenauer is the Solomon descent algebra.
We present the solution to a problem presented by Knuth, attributed to Gosper.
For words of length $n$, generated by independent geometric random variables, we consider the mean and variance of the number of inversions and of a parameter of Knuth from permutation in situ. In this way, $q$--analogues for these parameters from the usual permutation model are obtained.
We give an exposition of Schensted's algorithm to find the length of the longest increasing subword of a word in an ordered alphabet, and Greene's generalization of Schensted's results using Knuth equivalence. We announce a generalization of these results to timed words.
We present an algorithmic approach to the conjugacy problems in monoids, using rewriting systems. We extend the classical theory of rewriting developed by Knuth and Bendix to a rewriting that takes into account the cyclic conjugates.
We apply the method of characteristics for the solution of pde's to two combinatorial problems. The first is finding an explicit form for a distribution that arises in bio-informatics. The second is a question raised by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik abiout a sequence of generalized binomial coefficients. We find an exact formula, which factors in an interesting way, in the case where one of the six parameters of the problem vanishes. We also show that the associated polynomial sequence has real zeros only, provided that one parameter vanishes, and the other five are nonnegative.
One of the most important sequences in enumerative combinatorics is OEIS sequence A85, the number of involutions of length n. In the Art of Computer Programming, vol. 3, Don Knuth derived the O(1/n) asymptotic formula for these numbers. In this modest tribute to our two heroes, Neil Sloane who just turned 85, and Don Knuth who was 85 a year ago, we go all the way to an $O(1/n^{85})$ asymptotic formula.