Permutations

Algorithms to generate permutations In computing it may be required to generate permutations of a given sequence of values.

An approximate randomization test is based on a specified subset of all permutations (which entails potentially enormous housekeeping of which permutations have been considered).

An obvious way to generate permutations of n is to generate values for the Lehmer code (possibly using the factorial number system representation of integers up to n!), and convert those into the corresponding permutations.

Circular permutations Permutations, when considered as arrangements, are sometimes referred to as linearly ordered arrangements.

Definition and notations There are two equivalent common ways of regarding permutations, sometimes called the "active" and "passive" forms, or in older terminology "substitutions" and "permutations".

Even for ordinary permutations it is significantly more efficient than generating values for the Lehmer code in lexicographic order (possibly using the factorial number system ) and converting those to permutations.

From this viewpoint, the elements of S have no internal structure and are just labels for the objects being moved: one may refer to permutations of any set of n elements as "permutations on n letters".

However it does contain a normal subgroup S of permutations that fix all but finitely many elements, and such permutations can be classified as either even or odd.

Multiplying permutations written in cycle notation follows no easily described pattern, and the cycles of the product can be entirely different from those of the permutations being composed.

Other uses of the term permutation The concept of a permutation as an ordered arrangement admits several generalizations that are not permutations but have been called permutations in the literature.

The determinant of P is just the sign of the corresponding permutation (which is +1 for an even number of permutations and is −1 for an uneven number of permutations).

The numerator gives the number of k-permutations of n, i.e., of sequences of k distinct elements of S, while the denominator gives the number of such k-permutations that give the same k-combination when the order is ignored.

The product of two even permutations is even, the product of two odd permutations is even, and all other products are odd.

This is because, even though in case of repeated values there can be many distinct permutations of n that result in the same permuted sequence, the number of such permutations is the same for each possible result.

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