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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

2:00 pm in Zoom,Tuesday, June 30, 2020

#### Variations on twins in permutations

###### Andrzej Dudek (Western Michigan University)

Abstract: Let $\pi$ be a permutation of the set $[n]=\{1,2,\dots, n\}$. Two disjoint order-isomorphic subsequences of $\pi$ are called twins. How long twins are contained in every permutation? The well known Erdos-Szekeres theorem implies that there is always a pair of twins of length $\Omega(\sqrt{n})$. On the other hand, by a simple probabilistic argument Gawron proved that for every $n\geq 1$ there exist permutations with no twins of length greater than $O(n^{2/3})$. His conjecture states that the latter bound is the correct size of the longest twins guaranteed in every permutation. In this talk we show that asymptotically almost surely a random permutation contains twins of length at least $\Omega(n^{2/3})$, which supports this conjecture. (This was also proved recently by Bukh and Rudenko.) We also discuss several variants of the problem with diverse restrictions imposed on the twins.

This is a joint work with Jaroslaw Grytczuk and Andrzej Rucinski.

For the Zoom ID, please email Sean at SEnglish (at) illinois (dot) edu