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On WQO property for different quasi orderings of the set of permutations

  • Sandra Ose*
  • , Juris Viksna
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Latvia

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Abstract

The property of certain sets being well quasi ordered (WQO) has several useful applications in computer science - it can be used to prove the existence of efficient algorithms and also in certain cases to prove that a specific algorithm terminates. One of such sets of interest is the set of permutations. The fact that the set of permutations is not WQO has been rediscovered several times and a number of different permutation antichains have been published. However these results apply to a specific ordering relation of permutations ≤, which is not the only 'natural' option and an alternative ordering relation of permutations ⊴(more related to 'graph' instead of 'sorting' properties of permutations) is often of larger practical interest. It turns out that the known examples of antichains for the ordering ≤ can't be used directly to establish that ⊴ is not WQO. In this paper we study this alternative ordering relation of permutations ⊴ and give an example of an antichain with respect to this ordering, thus showing that ⊴ is not WQO. In general antichains for ⊴ cannot be directly constructed from antichains for ≤, however the opposite is the case - any antichain for ⊴ allows to construct an antichain for ≤.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science - 8th International Doctoral Workshop, MEMICS 2012, Revised Selected Papers
Pages190-199
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science, MEMICS 2012 - Znojmo, Czech Republic
Duration: 25 Oct 201228 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7721 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science, MEMICS 2012
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityZnojmo
Period25/10/1228/10/12

OECD Field of Science

  • 1.2 Computer and Information Sciences

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