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Shifted once right (beginning as 1,1,1,2,5,9,...) this is maximum cycle size (in the same range) of permutations A085169/A085170, shifted twice right (beginning as 1,1,1,1,2,5,9,...) this is the maximum cycle size in permutations A089867/A089868 and A089869/A089870.

The number of orbits to which the corresponding automorphism(s) partitions the set of A000108(n) binary trees with n internal nodes. Does the non-monotone behavior continue indefinitely?

Row n is the signature permutation of the Catalan automorphism which is obtained from the n-th nonrecursive automorphism in the table A089840 with the recursion scheme "FORK". In this recursion scheme the given automorphism is first applied at the root of binary tree, before the algorithm recurses down to the both branches (new ones, possibly changed by the given automorphism). I.e. this corresponds to the pre-order (prefix) traversal of a Catalan structure, when it is interpreted as a binary tree. The associated Scheme-procedures FORK and !FORK can be used to obtain such a transformed automorphism from any constructively or destructively implemented automorphism. Each row occurs only once in this table. Inverses of these permutations can be found in table A122202.

This automorphism effects the following transformation on the unlabeled rooted plane binary trees (letters A, B, C refer to arbitrary subtrees located on those nodes and () stands for an implied terminal node.)

A...B..............B...C

.\./................\./

..x...C..-->.....A...x................()..B.......B..()

...\./............\./..................\./...-->...\./.

....x..............x....................x...........x..

((a . b) . c) -> (a . (b . c)) __ (() . b) --> (b . ())

That is, we rotate the binary tree right, in case it is possible and otherwise (if the left hand side of a tree is a terminal node) swap the right and left subtree (so that the terminal node ends to the right hand side), i.e. apply the automorphism *A069770. Look at the example in A069770 to see how this will produce the given sequence of integers.

See also the comments at A074679.

This bijection maps between the "standard" ordering of binary trees as encoded by A014486 and "variant A quaternary encoding" as explained in the sequence A085184.

This is a rare example of Catalan Automorphism (with simple definition) where the cycle count sequence (A089411) is not monotone. (See A127296 for more complex example.)

A parenthesization is fixed by the Catalan bijections A085169/A085170 if and only if no other elements than () and (()) occur at its top-level: (); ()(),(()); ()()(),()(()),(())(); ()()()(),()()(()),()(())(),(())()(),(())(()); ... There is a simple bijection between these and Zeckendorf-expansions, explaining why Fibonacci numbers gives the number of fixed points of this permutation.

In addition to "rising slope" and "descending slope" mappings from Dyck paths to noncrossing Murasaki-diagrams as illustrated in A085161 and A086431 there is also a mapping where we insert a vertical stick after every second parenthesis and connect those that are on the same level without any intermediate points below. This Catalan bijection converts between these two mappings. See the illustration at example lines.

This automorphism reflects the interpretations (pp)-(rr) of Stanley, obtained from the Dyck paths with the "rising slope mapping" illustrated on the example lines.