Pattern avoidance in compositions and powers of permutations

Abstract: A permutation $\pi$ is said to avoid a chain $(\sigma:\tau)$ of patterns if $\pi$ avoids $\sigma$ and $\pi^2$ avoids $\tau.$ In this paper, we define a notion of pattern avoidance for compositions of positive integers and use that idea to enumerate permutations of length $n$ that avoid the chain $(312,321:\sigma)$ for any pattern $\sigma\in \bigcup_{m\geq 1} \mathcal{S}_m$. We also enumerate those permutations that avoid the chain $(312,4321:\sigma)$ for any $\sigma\in\mathcal{S}_3.$