Nested Catalan tables and a recurrence relation in noncommutative quantum field theory (Q2124254)

Summary: Correlation functions in a dynamic quartic matrix model are obtained from the twopoint function through a recurrence relation. This paper gives the explicit solution of the recurrence by mapping it bijectively to a two-fold nested combinatorial structure each counted by Catalan numbers. These ``nested Catalan tables'' have a description as diagrams of non-crossing chords and threads.