OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
See A180632 for more about superpermutations, i.e., strings over a finite alphabet, say {1, ..., n}, that contain all permutations thereof as a substring. "Digits taken according to ..." means the number whose i-th digit is d[s[i]], 1 <= i <= A180632(#d), where d and s are the sequences of digits of the prime and of the superpermutation, respectively.
In March 2014, Ben Chaffin showed that minimal superpermutations of order n = 5 have length 153, and found all 8 distinct superpermutations of this kind (the lexicographically first being non-palindromic), so the 5-digit terms are known. For n = 6, Robin Houston has found a few months later several superpermutations of length 872 (one less than the previously conjectured minimal length), but we still don't know which is the shortest (and/or lexico-first) superpermutation for that case.
This is a variant of A244311, which (by definition) lacks single-digit terms and which uses the easily computed palindromic superpermutations produced by the classical recursive algorithm (see PARI code there), of non-minimal length A007489(n) for n > 5 and non-minimal lex order for n = 5. The lexico-first minimal-length superpermutations aren't palindromic, and therefore the corresponding primes aren't so here, in contrast to A244311.
LINKS
Robin Houston, Tackling the Minimal Superpermutation Problem, arXiv:1408.5108 [math.CO], 2014.
Nathaniel Johnston, Non-uniqueness of minimal superpermutations, arXiv:1303.4150 [math.CO], 2013; Discrete Math., 313 (2013), 1553-1557.
Wikipedia, Superpermutation
EXAMPLE
The superpermutations with minimal length of less than 5 objects are unique (up to the choice of the symbols), the one for 3 objects is "123121321".
The prime p = 109 is in this sequence since under the above superpermutation (i.e., taking the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 3rd, 2nd and 1st digit) it yields the number 109101901 which is also prime.
The minimal superpermutation of order 5 is the first one to be not palindromic, it reads "1234512...3254312". Correspondingly, when this "acts on" the 5-digit prime p = 11369, we get a non-palindromic 153 digit prime P = 1136911...3196311 whose 7th digit from the left is p's 2nd digit, '1', but whose 7th digit from the right is p's 3rd digit, '3'.
PROG
(PARI) SP=[digits(p) | p <- [1, 121, 123121321, 123412314231243121342132413214321, fromdigits( [d-37| d<-Vecsmall( "&<R1G4<N>G1HN<3Y2OXG:ZO2[:GY3H:RE3YDOZ3<XOD[<1RD=H1P4=D>P:[EXP>NER2=4ENH=2>P1")], 100)]] /* minimal superperms up to n=5, in custom base100 encoding for n=5 for lack of algorithm and to avoid the 153-digit decimal number */
is_A332088(n)=ispseudoprime(fromdigits(vecextract(n=digits(n), SP[#n])))
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,base
AUTHOR
M. F. Hasler, Jul 28 2020
STATUS
approved