A correspondence between two Catalan sets (Q1094502)

The author establishes a one-to-one correspondence between the set of all tridiagonal unimodular \(n\times n\)-matrices whose nonzero nondiagonal entries are all 1 and diagonal entries are positive integers and the set of all triangulations of a convex \((n+2)\)-gon by nonintersecting diagonals (the cardinality of each of the two sets is the nth Catalan number \(\left( \begin{matrix} 2n\\ n\end{matrix} \right)/(n+1))\).