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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 "ENIPS". In this recursion scheme the algorithm first recurses down to the right-hand side branch of the binary tree, before the given automorphism is applied at its root. This corresponds to the fold-right operation applied to the Catalan structure, interpreted e.g. as a parenthesization or a Lisp-like list, where (lambda (x y) (f (cons x y))) is the binary function given to fold, with 'f' being the given automorphism. The associated Scheme-procedures ENIPS and !ENIPS 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 A122203.

Because of the "universal property of folds", the recursion scheme ENIPS has a well-defined inverse, that is, it acts as a bijective mapping on the set of all Catalan automorphisms. Specifically, if g = ENIPS(f), then (f s) = (g (cons (car s) (g^{-1} (cdr s)))), that is, to obtain an automorphism f which gives g when subjected to recursion scheme ENIPS, we compose g with its own inverse applied to the cdr-branch of a S-expression (i.e. the right subtree in the context of binary trees). This implies that for any non-recursive automorphism f in the table A089840, ENIPS^{-1}(f) is also in A089840, which in turn implies that the rows of table A089840 form a (proper) subset of the rows of this table.

This automorphism of binary trees first swaps the left and right subtree of the root and then proceeds recursively to the (new) left subtree, to do the same operation there. This is one of those Catalan bijections which extend to a unique automorphism of the infinite binary tree, which in this case is A153142. See further comments there and in A153141.

This bijection, Knack, is a ENIPS-transformation of the simple swap: ENIPS(*A069770) (i.e., row 1 of A122204). Furthermore, Knack and Knick (the inverse, A069767) have a special property, that FORK and KROF transforms (explained in A122201 and A122202) transform them to their own inverses, i.e., to each other: FORK(Knick) = KROF(Knick) = Knack and FORK(Knack) = KROF(Knack) = Knick, thus this occurs also as row 1 in A122288 and naturally, the double-fork fixes both, e.g., FORK(FORK(Knack)) = Knack.

Note: the name in Finnish is "Naks".

The signature-permutation of the Catalan automorphism which is derived from the third non-recursive Catalan automorphism *A089850 with recursion schema SPINE (see A122203 for the definition). This automorphism is also produced when automorphism *A069767 is applied to the right-hand side subtree of the given binary tree, with the left side left intact.

Derived from automorphism *A130342 with recursion scheme SPINE.