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Stanley-Wilf Limits for Patterns in Rooted Labeled Forests

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Building off recent work of Garg and Peng, we continue the investigation into classical and consecutive pattern avoidance in rooted forests. We prove a forest analogue of the Stanley-Wilf conjecture for avoiding a single pattern as well as certain other sets of patterns. Our techniques are analytic, easily generalizing to different types of pattern avoidance and allowing for computations of convergent lower bounds of the forest Stanley-Wilf limit in the cases covered by our result. We end with several open questions and directions for future research, including some on the limit distributions of certain statistics of pattern-avoiding forests.

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Michael Ren. 2023-10-04. Stanley-Wilf Limits for Patterns in Rooted Labeled Forests. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02499

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