A curious polynomial interpolation of Carlitz-Riordan's q-ballot numbers

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Authors F. Chapoton, Jiang Zeng

Publication date 28 August 2015

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.7228

zbMATH Keywords

lattice paths\(q\)-Catalan numbers\(q\)-ballot numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) (q)-calculus and related topics (05A30)

Abstract: We study a polynomial sequence $C_n(x|q)$ defined as a solution of a $q$-difference equation. This sequence, evaluated at $q$-integers, interpolates Carlitz-Riordan's $q$-ballot numbers. In the basis given by some kind of $q$-binomial coefficients, the coefficients are again some $q$-ballot numbers. We obtain in a combinatorial way another curious recurrence relation for these polynomials.

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