We consider the concentration of measure for n iid, two-dimensional random variables, under the conditioning that they form a record. Under mild conditions, we show that all random variables tend to concentrate, as n ! 1, around limiting curves, which are the solutions of an appropriate variational problem. We also show that the same phenomenum occurs, without the records conditioning, for the ...

A longest increasing subsequence problem (LIS) is a well-known combinatorial problem with applications mainly in bioinformatics, where it is used in various projects on DNA sequences. Recently, a number of generalisations of this problem were proposed. One of them is to find an LIS among all fixed-size windows of the input sequence (LISW). We propose an algorithm for the LISW problem based on c...

ABSTRACT. We study the shape of the Young diagram λ associated via the Robinson–Schensted– Knuth algorithm to a random permutation in Sn such that the length of the longest decreasing subsequence is not bigger than a fixed number d; in other words we study the restriction of the Plancherel measure to Young diagrams with at most d rows. We prove that in the limit n → ∞ the rows of λ behave like ...

Given a sequence π1π2 . . . πn, a longest increasing subsequence (LIS) in a window π〈l, r〉= πlπl+1 . . . πr is a longest subsequence σ = πi1πi2 . . . πiT such that l ≤ i1 < i2 < · · · < iT ≤ r and πi1 < πi2 < · · · < πiT . We consider the Lisw problem, which is to find the longest increasing subsequences in a sliding window of fixed-size w over a sequence. Formally, it is to find a LIS for ever...

In their retrospective analysis of natural product (NP) discovery since the 1940s, Pye et al. (1) observe a gradual decline in the proportion of NPs discovered each year with low similarity to previously known compounds [defined by maximum Tanimoto coefficient (Tc) < 0.4]. Additionally, the authors report that the median maximum Tc for all NPs discovered in a given year has plateaued since the ...