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2-Stack Sorting is polynomial

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In this article, we give a polynomial algorithm to decide whether a given permutation $\sigma$ is sortable with two stacks in series. This is indeed a longstanding open problem which was first introduced by Knuth. He introduced the stack sorting problem as well as permutation patterns which arises naturally when characterizing permutations that can be sorted with one stack. When several stacks in series are considered, few results are known. There are two main different problems. The first one is the complexity of deciding if a permutation is sortable or not, the second one being the characterization and the enumeration of those sortable permutations. We hereby prove that the first problem lies in P by giving a polynomial algorithm to solve it. This article strongly relies on a previous article in which 2-stack pushall sorting is defined and studied.
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hal-00809832 , version 1 (09-04-2013)

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Adeline Pierrot, Dominique Rossin. 2-Stack Sorting is polynomial. 2013. ⟨hal-00809832⟩
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