TY - GEN
T1 - On WQO property for different quasi orderings of the set of permutations
AU - Ose, Sandra
AU - Viksna, Juris
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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 ≤.
AB - 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 ≤.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84873818816
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-36046-6_18
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-36046-6_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-36046-6_18
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:84873818816
SN - 9783642360442
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 190
EP - 199
BT - Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science - 8th International Doctoral Workshop, MEMICS 2012, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 8th International Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science, MEMICS 2012
Y2 - 25 October 2012 through 28 October 2012
ER -