Vexillary permutation


In mathematics, a vexillary permutation is a permutation μ of the positive integers containing no subpermutation isomorphic to the permutation ; in other words, there do not exist four numbers i < j < k < l with μ < μ < μ < μ. They were introduced by. The word "vexillary" means flag-like, and comes from the fact that vexillary permutations are related to flags of modules.
showed that vexillary involutions are enumerated by Motzkin numbers.