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Fast RSK Correspondence by Doubling Search

Author Alexander Tiskin

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  • Mathematics of computing → Permutations and combinations
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  • combinatorics of permutations
  • Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence
  • k-chains
  • RSK algorithm

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Abstract

The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth (RSK) correspondence is a fundamental concept in combinatorics and representation theory. It is defined as a certain bijection between permutations and pairs of Young tableaux of a given order. We consider the RSK correspondence as an algorithmic problem, along with the closely related k-chain problem. We give a simple, direct description of the symmetric RSK algorithm, which is implied by the k-chain algorithms of Viennot and of Felsner and Wernisch. We also show how the doubling search of Bentley and Yao can be used as a subroutine by the symmetric RSK algorithm, replacing the default binary search. Surprisingly, such a straightforward replacement improves the asymptotic worst-case running time for the RSK correspondence that has been best known since 1998. A similar improvement also holds for the average running time of RSK on uniformly random permutations.

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Alexander Tiskin. Fast RSK Correspondence by Doubling Search. In 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 244, pp. 86:1-86:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.86

Author Details

Alexander Tiskin
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Funding

This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant no. 22-21-00669, https://www.rscf.ru/en/project/22-21-00669/.

Acknowledgements

I thank Nikolay Vasilyev, Vasilii Duzhin and Artem Kuzmin for advice and fruitful discussions.

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