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Counting 4-Patterns in Permutations Is Equivalent to Counting 4-Cycles in Graphs

Authors Bartłomiej Dudek , Paweł Gawrychowski

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  • Theory of computation → Algorithm design techniques
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  • Permutations
  • pattern avoidance
  • counting cycles

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Abstract

Permutation σ appears in permutation π if there exists a subsequence of π that is order-isomorphic to σ. The natural algorithmic question is to check if σ appears in π, and if so count the number of occurrences. Only since very recently we know that for any fixed length k, we can check if a given pattern of length k appears in a permutation of length n in time linear in n, but being able to count all such occurrences in f(k)⋅ n^o(k/log k) time would refute the exponential time hypothesis (ETH). Together with practical applications in statistics, this motivates a systematic study of the complexity of counting occurrences for different patterns of fixed small length k. We investigate this question for k = 4. Very recently, Even-Zohar and Leng [arXiv 2019] identified two types of 4-patterns. For the first type they designed an 𝒪̃(n) time algorithm, while for the second they were able to provide an 𝒪̃(n^1.5) time algorithm. This brings up the question whether the permutations of the second type are inherently harder than the first type.
We establish a connection between counting 4-patterns of the second type and counting 4-cycles (not necessarily induced) in a sparse undirected graph. By designing two-way reductions we show that the complexities of both problems are the same, up to polylogarithmic factors. This allows us to leverage the work done on the latter to provide a reasonable argument for why there is a difference in the complexities for counting 4-patterns of the first and the second type. In particular, even for the seemingly simpler problem of detecting a 4-cycle in a graph on m edges, the best known algorithm works in 𝒪(m^{4/3}) time. Our reductions imply that an 𝒪(n^{4/3-ε}) time algorithm for counting occurrences of any 4-pattern of the second type in a permutation of length n would imply an exciting breakthrough for counting (and hence also detecting) 4-cycles. In the other direction, by plugging in the fastest known algorithm for counting 4-cycles, we obtain an algorithm for counting occurrences of any 4-pattern of the second type in 𝒪(n^1.48) time.

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Bartłomiej Dudek and Paweł Gawrychowski. Counting 4-Patterns in Permutations Is Equivalent to Counting 4-Cycles in Graphs. In 31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 181, pp. 23:1-23:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.23

Author Details

Bartłomiej Dudek
  • Institute of Computer Science, University of Wrocław, Poland
Paweł Gawrychowski
  • Institute of Computer Science, University of Wrocław, Poland

Funding

  • Dudek, Bartłomiej: partially supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, grant number 2017/27/N/ST6/02719.

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