Martin Maechler wrote:
> Ok,
> thanks a lot, everyone!
>
> Yes, I should rather have started thinking a bit more myself,
> before going the easy route to R-help....
>
> Anyway, the most obvious algorithm,
> just putting things into place by swapping elements,
> and counting how many times you have to swap, is easy and
> quite efficient.
>
> I'll post R code later, being busy for the next few hours.
> Martin
>
>
It is also quite easy to generate the cycles explicitly by a marking
algorithm:
p <- sample(1:100)
x <- integer(100)
for (i in 1:100) {
z <- which(!x)[1]
if (is.na(z)) break
repeat {
x[z] <- i
z <- p[z]
if (x[z]) break
}
}
table(x)
(the which(!x)[1] bit could be optimized somewhat if this had been C.
Notice that the loop is essentially O(N) because every iteration marks
one element of x)
>
>>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>> on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:13:43 +0200 writes:
>>>>>>
>
> MM> I am looking for an algorithm (written in R (preferably) or C,
> MM> but even pseudo-code in a text book maybe fine)
> MM> to determine the sign of a permutation.
>
> MM> What is that? Well, a permutation is either even or odd, the
> MM> sign is +1 or -1, respectively, see, e.g.,
> MM> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_of_a_permutation
> MM> which also says
> >>> In practice, in order to determine whether a given permutation
> >>> is even or odd, one writes the permutation as a product of
> >>> disjoint cycles. The permutation is odd if and only if this
> >>> factorization contains an odd number of even-length cycles.
>
> MM> but I would not know how to algorithmically
> MM> "write the permutation as a product of disjoint cycles"
>
> MM> If you start looking at R code,
> MM> let's assume the permutation {\pi(i)}_{i=1..n} is simply given
> MM> as the (integer) vector (\pi(1), \pi(2), ..., \pi(n))
> MM> {or equivalently, a random permutation is simply found by
> 'sample(n)'}
>
> MM> Thank you in advance for further pointers,
> MM> or even working R code.
>
> MM> Best regards,
> MM> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
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