What do a longest increasing subsequence and a longest decreasing subsequence know about each other?

Elizabeth J. Itskovich, Vadim E. Levit

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Abstract

As a kind of converse of the celebrated Erdos-Szekeres theorem, we present a necessary and sufficient condition for a sequence of length n to contain a longest increasing subsequence and a longest decreasing subsequence of given lengths x and y, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Article number237
JournalAlgorithms
Volume12
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2019
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • Erdos-Szekeres theorem
  • Longest decreasing sequence
  • Longest increasing sequence

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