Enumeration of rhombus tilings of a hexagon which contain a fixed rhombus in the centre

DOI10.1006/JCTA.2000.3169MaRDI QIDQ5952334zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Ilse Fischer

Publication date 2 March 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9906102

zbMATH Keywords

determinant evaluationenumerationlozenge tilingnonintersecting lattice pathsplane partitionrhombus tilings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

Abstract: We compute the number of rhombus tilings of a hexagon with side lengths a,b,c,a,b,c which contain the central rhombus and the number of rhombus tilings of a hexagon with side lengths a,b,c,a,b,c which contain the `almost central` rhombus above the centre.

Review text

This paper contains two new results in the enumeration of rhombus tilings: Translating tilings to determinants using the Gessel-Viennot ``method of nonintersecting lattice paths, the author obtains a triple sum, which then is evaluated by using hypergeometric transformations and summations. These computations yield the number of rhombus tilings of a hexagon with opposite sides of equal lengths, which contain the central rhombus, and the ``next-to-central rhombus, respectively.

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