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Take $k=k_0=\min \{j:j!\ge n\}$. Then $k\to \infty$ and $(k-1)!<n\le k!$. Also $k=O(\log n)$, because $j!\ge 2^{j-1}$, so the needed block lengths are below $n/2$ for large $n$.

If $L\ge k+1$, then $X_{k+1}\ge 1$. Markov's inequality givesFor $j=k-2$, the expected count satisfies $\mu =n/j!>k-1\to \infty$. Part (ii) bounds its variance by $2\mu$, so Chebyshev's inequality givesCombining the tails provesThe blocks are consecutive in the cyclic order throughout; this is not the longest increasing subsequence with arbitrary omitted positions.

This establishes the longest increasing cyclic run of a random permutation concentration bound.