Abstract
Superpermutations are words over a finite alphabet containing every permutation as a factor. Finding the minimal length of a superpermutation is still an open problem. In this article, we introduce superpermutations matrices. We establish a link between the minimal size of such a matrix and the minimal length of a universal word for the quotient of the symmetric group $S_n$ by an equivalence relation. We will then give non-trivial bounds on the minimal length of such a word and prove that the limit of their ratio when $n$ approaches infinity is 2.
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