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Volume 90, Issue 4, 31 May 2004, Pages 181-186
 
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Constant time generation of derangements

James F. Korsh Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Paul S. LaFollette E-mail The Corresponding Author

Department of CIS, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA

Received 10 December 2002; 
Revised 13 January 2004. 
Communicated by L.A. Hemaspaandra 
Available online 10 March 2004.

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Abstract

This paper presents the first constant time generation algorithm for derangements—permutations with no fixed points. Each derangement is obtained from its predecessor by making either one transposition or one rotation of three elements. It also generalizes this to permutations with a bounded number of fixed points.

Author Keywords: Author Keywords: Algorithms; Combinatorial problems; Loopless; Derangements; Gray code; Fixed points

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