About
The abelian sandpile model
The abelian sandpile model is a popular diffusion model which showcases the dynamical concept of self-organised criticality. Its dynamics on a general graph are governed by the graph's Laplacian and our work in this area has studied the model on the complete bipartite graph and its relation to q,t-Narayana polynomials, staircase polyominoes and bounce paths.
Web worlds, web diagrams and scattering amplitudes
These structures have their motivation in quantum chromodynamics where they are used in the calculation of scattering amplitudes. Our research has shown that the combinatorics of order-preserving maps on partially ordered sets lie at the root of being able to perform calculations related to these structures and amplitudes.
The combinatorics of permutations
Property classification theorems using forbidden sub-structure are widespread in mathematics. When one asks what connections emerge when this lens is pointed at permutations, a rich collection of results in enumerative combinatorics emerges. My research in this area includes the introduction of bivincular patterns and new connections to interval orders.
Degrees:
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin.
M.A. in Mathematical Sciences, University of Oxford.
Other:
P.G.Cert. in Academic Studies (Academic Practice).
Fellow of the HEA.
PhD Opportunities
- Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarships. The deadline for applying is usually the beginning of November the year before the position is due to start. Such applications require quite a non-trivial amount of work and I recommend coming to see me no later than 1st September 2020 if you are considering this for a September 2021 start.
Research
- Preprints (1)
- Journal Publications (37)
- Conference Publications (9)
- Book Chapters (1)
- Books Edited (1)
- Mark Dukes.
The sandpile model on the complete split graph, combinatorial necklaces, and tiered parking functions.
Submitted for publication, March 2020. Article available upon request.
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Mark Dukes, Thomas Selig, Jason P. Smith and Einar Steingrímsson.
Permutation graphs and the Abelian sandpile model, tiered trees and non-ambiguous binary trees.
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 26 (2019), no. 3, P3.29. -
Mark Dukes, Thomas Selig, Jason P. Smith and Einar Steingrímsson.
The Abelian sandpile model on Ferrers graphs – A classification of recurrent configurations.
European Journal of Combinatorics 81 (2019) 221-241. -
Mark Dukes and Peter R.W. McNamara.
Refining the bijections among ascent sequences, (2+2)-free posets, integer matrices and pattern-avoiding permutations.
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A 167 (2019) 403-430. -
Mark Dukes and Thomas Selig.
Decomposing recurrent states of the Abelian Sandpile Model.
Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire 77 (2018), B77g. -
Tom S. Weber, Mark Dukes, Denise C. Miles, Stefan P. Glaser, Shalin H. Naik and Ken R. Duffy.
Site-specific recombinatorics: in situ cellular barcoding with the Cre Lox system.
BMC Systems Biology 10:43, (2016). - Mark Dukes and Chris D. White.
Web matrices: structural properties and generating combinatorial identities.
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 23 (2016), no. 1, P1.45. - Jean-Christophe Aval, Michele D'Adderio, Mark Dukes, and Yvan Le Borgne.
Two operators on sandpile configurations, the sandpile model on the complete bipartite graph, and a Cyclic Lemma.
Advances in Applied Mathematics 73 (2016) 59-98. - Mark Dukes.
Generalized ballot sequences are ascent sequences.
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 64 (2016), no. 1, 61-63. - Mark Dukes.
Revstack sort, zigzag patterns, descent polynomials of t-revstack sortable permutations, and Steingrímsson's sorting conjecture.
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 21 (2014), no. 2, P2.2. - Mark Dukes, Einan Gardi, Heather McAslan, Darren J. Scott, Chris D. White.
Webs and posets.
Journal of High Energy Physics 2014 (2014), no. 1, 1-43. - Jean-Christophe Aval, Michele D'Adderio, Mark Dukes, Angela Hicks and Yvan Le Borgne.
Statistics on parallelogram polyominoes and a q,t-analogue of the Narayana numbers.
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A 123 (2014), no. 1, 271-286. - Mark Dukes, Einan Gardi, Einar Steingrímsson, and Chris D. White.
Web worlds, web-colouring matrices, and web-mixing matrices.
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A 120 (2013), no. 5, 1012-1037. - Mark Dukes and Yvan Le Borgne.
Parallelogram polyominoes, the sandpile model on a complete bipartite graph, and a q,t-Narayana polynomial.
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A 120 (2013), no. 4, 816-842. - Michael H. Albert, M. D. Atkinson, Mathilde Bouvel, Anders Claesson and Mark Dukes.
On the inverse image of pattern classes under bubble sort.
Journal of Combinatorics 2 (2011), no. 2, 231-243. - Mark Dukes, Sergey Kitaev, Jeffrey Remmel and Einar Steingrímsson.
Enumerating (2+2)-free posets by indistinguishable elements.
Journal of Combinatorics 2 (2011), no. 1, 139-163. - Mark Dukes, Vit Jelinek and Martina Kubitzke.
Composition matrices, (2+2)-free posets and their specializations.
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 18 (2011), no. 1, P44. - Anders Claesson, Mark Dukes and Martina Kubitzke.
Partition and composition matrices.
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A 118 (2011), no. 5, 1624-1637. - Anders Claesson, Mark Dukes and Sergey Kitaev.
A direct encoding of Stoimenow's matchings as ascent sequences.
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 49 (2011), 47-59. - Fan Chung, Anders Claesson, Mark Dukes and Ronald Graham.
Descent polynomials for permutations with bounded drop size.
European Journal of Combinatorics 31 (2010), no. 7, 1853-1867. [current-errata] - Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, Anders Claesson, Mark Dukes and Sergey Kitaev.
(2+2)-free posets, ascent sequences and pattern avoiding permutations.
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A 117 (2010), no. 7, 884-909. - Mark Dukes and Robert Parviainen.
Ascent sequences and upper triangular matrices containing non-negative integers.
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 17 (2010), no. 1, #R53 (16pp). - Mark Dukes and Astrid Reifegerste.
The area above the Dyck path of a permutation.
Advances in Applied Mathematics 45 (2010), 15-23. - Anders Claesson, Mark Dukes and Einar Steingrímsson.
Permutations sortable by n – 4 passes through a stack.
Annals of Combinatorics, 14 (2010) 45-51. - François David, Mark Dukes, Thordur Jónsson, Sigurdur Örn Stefánsson.
Random tree growth by vertex splitting.
Journal of Statistical Mechanics (2009), no. 4, P04009. - Eva Y. P. Deng, W. M. B. Dukes, Toufik Mansour and Susan Y. J. Wu.
Symmetric Schröder paths and restricted involutions.
Discrete Mathematics 309 (2009), 4108-4115. - W. M. B. Dukes, Vit Jelínek, Toufik Mansour and Astrid Reifegerste.
New equivalences for pattern avoidance for involutions.
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 137 (2009), 457-465. - W. M. B. Dukes.
Concerning the shape of a geometric lattice.
Discrete Mathematics 308 (2008), 6632-6638. - W. M. B. Dukes, T. Mansour and A. Reifegerste.
Wilf classification of three and four letter signed patterns.
Discrete Mathematics 308 (2008), 3125-3133. - W. M. B. Dukes, Mark F. Flanagan, Toufik Mansour and V. Vajnovszki.
Combinatorial Gray codes for classes of pattern avoiding permutations.
Theoretical Computer Science 396 (2008), 35-49. - W. M. B. Dukes and Toufik Mansour.
Signed involutions avoiding 2-letter signed patterns.
Annals of Combinatorics 11 (2007), 387-403. - W. M. B. Dukes.
Permutation statistics on involutions.
European Journal of Combinatorics 28 (2007), 186-198. - W. M. B. Dukes.
On the number of matroids on a finite set.
Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire 51 (2004), B51g. - T. C. Dorlas and W. M. B. Dukes.
Fluctuations of the local magnetic field in frustrated mean-field Ising models.
Markov Processes and Related Fields 10 (2004), 585-606. - Ken Duffy and W. M. B. Dukes.
On Knuth's generalization of Banach's matchbox problem.
Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 104 (2004), 107-118. - W. M. B. Dukes.
Bounds on the number of generalized partitions and some applications.
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 28 (2003), 257-262. - W. M. B. Dukes.
On a unimodality conjecture in matroid theory.
Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science 5 (2002), 181-190. - T. C. Dorlas and W. M. B. Dukes.
Large deviation approach to the generalised random energy model.
Journal of Physics. A. Mathematical and General 35 (2002), 4385-4394.
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Mark Dukes and Peter R.W. McNamara.
Refining the bijections among ascent sequences, (2+2)-free posets, integer matrices and pattern-avoiding permutations.
FPSAC, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019.
Sém. Lothar. Comb. 82B (2019) 12pp. -
Mark Dukes and Thomas Selig.
Decomposing recurrent states of the abelian sandpile model.
Discrete Mathematics Days, Barcelona, 2016.
Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 54 (2016) 97-102. -
Jean-Christophe Aval, Michele d'Adderio, Mark Dukes, Angela Hicks and Yvan Le Borgne.
A q,t-analogue of Narayana numbers.
25th International Conference on Formal Power Series & Algebraic Combinatorics, Paris, 2013.
Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. Proc. AS (2013) 623-634. -
Mark Dukes and Yvan Le Borgne.
The sandpile model on a bipartite graph, parallelogram polyominoes, and a q,t-Narayana polynomial.
24th International Conference on Formal Power Series & Algebraic Combinatorics, Nagoya, 2012.
Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. Proc. AR (2012) 337-348. -
Anders Claesson, Mark Dukes and Martina Kubitzke.
Partition and composition matrices: two matrix analogues of set partitions.
23rd International Conference on Formal Power Series & Algebraic Combinatorics, Reykjavik, 2011.
Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. Proc. AO (2011) 221-232. -
Fan Chung, Anders Claesson, Mark Dukes and Ronald Graham.
Descent polynomials for permutations with bounded drop size.
22nd International Conference on Formal Power Series & Algebraic Combinatorics, San Francisco, 2010.
Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. Proc. AN (2010) 247-258. -
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, Anders Claesson, Mark Dukes and Sergey Kitaev.
Unlabeled (2+2)-free posets, ascent sequences and pattern avoiding permutations.
21st International Conference on Formal Power Series & Algebraic Combinatorics, Austria, 2009.
Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. Proc. AK (2009) 216-228. -
Mark Dukes, Vit Jelínek, Toufik Mansour and Astrid Reifegerste.
Equivalences for pattern avoiding involutions and classification.
20th International Conference on Formal Power Series & Algebraic Combinatorics, Chile, 2008.
Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. Proc. AJ (2008) 181-188. -
Mark Dukes and Toufik Mansour.
Involutions avoiding the class of permutations in Sk with prefix 12.
19th International Conference on Formal Power Series & Algebraic Combinatorics, China, 2007.
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- Mark Dukes and Yvan Le Borgne.
New aspects of the abelian sandpile model on graphs and their polynomials.
Graph Polynomials, eds. M. Dehmer, I. Gutman, X. Li, and Y. Shi. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press. 2016.
- Anders Claesson, Mark Dukes, Sergey Kitaev, David Manlove, Kitty Meeks.
Surveys in Combinatorics 2017.
Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Research Funding
Principal Investigator
EPSRC grant: New combinatorial perspectives on the abelian sandpile model
Amount: £354,282
Grant reference: EP/M015874/1
Dates: May 2015 - May 2018.
(Ownership tranferred to E. Steingrímsson on 23/9/2016 on departing the UK, and my role changed to Co-Investigator.)
Co-Investigator
Icelandic Research Fund Excellence grant: Combinatorics on permutations and words
Amount: ISK 67,609,000
Grant reference: 90038011, 90038012, 90038013
Dates: January 2009 - December 2011.
University of Strathclyde Faculty of Science Grant
Amount: £11,000
Dates: Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
Irish Mathematical Olympiads Compendium
All Irish Mathematical Olympiads from 1988 to present available in the IrMO Compendium.
Teaching
All material for current undergraduate courses can be found on UCD's latest e-learning system.
2019–2020:
- MATH20270: Theory of Games
- MST30040: Differential Equations
- MATH40620: Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics
Contact
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Postal address: Dr Mark Dukes UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland E-mail: mark.dukes@ccc.oxon.org, mark.dukes@ucd.ie ORCID: 0000-0002-2779-2680 MR Author ID: 696771 Scopus Author ID: 25957999500 Google Scholar: link |
Service
Over the years I have regularly reviewed for the following journals:
Advances in Applied Mathematics; Annals of Combinatorics;
Discrete Mathematics;
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics; European Journal of Combinatorics;
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A.
Other journals that I have reviewed for include:
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics;
Discrete Applied Mathematics;
Graphs and Combinatorics; Information Processing Letters;
Journal of Combinatorics; Journal of Integer Sequences; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference; Journal of Statistical Physics; Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society; Pure Mathematics and Applications; Theoretical Computer Science.
I have reviewed for the following research-funding agencies: EPSRC (United Kingdom); National Security Agency (USA); The Icelandic Research Fund (Iceland); Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (Holland).