Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

A systematic study of large combinatorial objects has recently led to discovering many connections between discrete mathematics and analysis. In this talk, we apply analytic methods to permutations. In particular, we associate every sequence of permutations with a measure on a unit square and show the following: if the density of every 4-element subpermutation in a permutation p is 1/4!+o(1), then the density of every k-element subpermutation is 1/k!+o(1). This answers a question of Graham whether quasirandomness of a permutation is captured by densities of its 4-element subpermutations. The result is based on a joint work with Oleg Pikhurko.