A curious family of binomial determinants that count rhombus tilings of a holey hexagon

DOI10.1016/j.jcta.2019.03.001zbMath1416.05039arXiv1709.02616OpenAlexW2750593470WikidataQ128095779 ScholiaQ128095779MaRDI QIDQ2000656

Christoph Koutschan, Thotsaporn ``Aek Thanatipanonda

Publication date: 28 June 2019

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02616

zbMATH Keywords

nonintersecting lattice pathsholonomic functionsrhombus tilingsymbolic summationbinomial determinantDesnanot-Jacobi-Dodgson identityLindström-Gessel-Viennot lemmaZeilberger's holonomic ansatz

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Partitions of sets (05A18) Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15)

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Uses Software

• HolonomicFunctions
• DODGSON
• DET

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