Problem statement — Permutation is called stable if P[i]=i for every i
We are given Permutation we want to tell in how many moves we can make this permutation stable or print -1 if not possible to make permutation stable.
in one move we can do operation : — P[i] = P[P[i]]
Sample TestCase
7
[1 3 2 5 6 7 4]
Output - > 2
[1 3 2 5 6 7 4] -> [1 2 3 6 7 4 5] -> [1 2 3 4 5 6 7]
Sample TestCase
7
[2 3 1 5 6 7 4]
Output - > -1
Please help and thanks in advance.
look at cycle decomposition of P
In sample test case 1
there were two cycles
first -> [3 2] -> solved in one operation
Second -> [5 6 7 4] -> solved in two operations
In sample test case 2
there were two cycles
first -> [2 3 1] -> Cannot be solved [-1]
Second -> [5 6 7 4] -> solved in two operations
I tried to generate permutation like above and found that if there is cycle whose length is power of 2 then answer is possible and answer is length/2 and for other cases we can't convert to stable permutation.
I don't have any proof, it was just an observation.
Please help or can anyone prove why this is happening
Correct me if I am wrong.
Thank you.
Whenever you apply the said operation, it breaks each cycle by two if it's even and it doesn't do anything if it's odd, just the order in the cycle changes. To reach the identity permutation, all cycles have to have 1 element. For this to hold each cycle has to have a power of 2.
It is correct. In group terms, every operation transforms P -> P^2, so any number of operations gives you P^(2^k) for some k. This can become the identity iff the order of P is a power of 2, iff every cycle is of size power of 2. Then the answer is log2(biggest cycle size).
Seeing it in group theory terms (algebraically? "P^2") makes it easier to visualise for me. Thank you!~
Bruh can u please tell the reference for this visualisation. I mean It is kind hard for me to prove the above .I don't want formal proof but intuition isalso fine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpKG6FmcIHk (thnks me later)
Bruh can u please tell the reference for this visualisation. I mean It is kind hard for me to prove the above .I don't want formal proof but intuition is also fine.I will be very thankful to you.
Can you please provide pseudocode for above explaination???
sudo(super user do) code? do you mean pseudocode?
What is this operation? Is it “move number p[p[i]] to position i”? (Which will change all j for j >= i to j+1).Because it looks like assignment, but example shows that it is not. Is there some meaning in dash before assignment?
PS. Damn, its a necropost…
For n=4 P=[4 3 2 1]. cycle length is 4, but ans=1 (not 4/2=2) So answer won't be length/2(If I'm not wrong).
here cycle length is 2 not 4. Cycle 1: 4-1, Cycle 2: 2-3