Re: Distance between permutations
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- Subject: [mg21627] Re: [mg21547] Distance between permutations
- From: Hartmut Wolf <hwolf at debis.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:35:15 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: debis Systemhaus
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DIAMOND Mark schrieb:
>
> I'm looking for a way of determining the minimum number of transpositions
> between two permutations. It is easy to determine the number of pairwise
> transpositions needed to go from the identity permutation to another
> permutation P as, say
>
> In[1]:= Needs["DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`"];
> In[2]:= p = {3, 2, 5, 1, 6, 4};
> In[3]:= c=ToCycles[p]
> Out[3]:= {{3, 5, 6, 4, 1}, {2}}
> In[4]:= 6-Length[c]
> Out[4]:= 4
>
> which is the number of transpositions needed to change {1,2,3,4,5,6} to
> {3,2,5,1,6,4}.
>
> But I would like to know the "distance" between {'s','p','o','t'} and
> {'t','o','p','s'}, or between {'a','g','h','p','n'} some other permutation
> thereof.
>
> I can do it by using a Replace rule like {'s'->1,'p'->2,'o'->3,'t'->4} and
> going from there, but I don't know how to generalise my little routine to
> handle *any* length (rather than just, say, length-4). And I wondered if
> there is a way of avoiding converting the first permutation into the "basis
> permutation" with my use of the Replace rules (Please excuse the ad-hoc
> terminology!)
As I understand your problem is to generate the replace rule in general.
Perhaps this will help you:
In[1]:= symbols = {"s", "p", "o", "t"}
Out[1]=
{"s", "p", "o", "t"}
Now if
In[2]:= Length[symbols] == Length[Union[symbols]]
Out[2]=
True
then you can build
In[3]:=
convertRule = MapThread[Rule, {symbols, Range[Length[symbols]]}]
Out[3]=
{"s" -> 1, "p" -> 2, "o" -> 3, "t" -> 4}
In[4]:=
reconvertRule = Reverse /@ convertRule
Out[4]=
{1 -> "s", 2 -> "p", 3 -> "o", 4 -> "t"}
Kind regards, Hartmut
- References:
- Distance between permutations
- From: "DIAMOND Mark" <noname@noname.com>
- Distance between permutations