Three osculating walkers
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Publication:6475360
DOI10.1088/1742-6596/42/1/005arXivmath/0504153MaRDI QIDQ6475360FDOQ6475360
Authors: Mireille Bousquet-Mélou 
Publication date: 7 April 2005
Abstract: We consider three directed walkers on the square lattice, which move simultaneously at each tick of a clock and never cross. Their trajectories form a non-crossing configuration of walks. This configuration is said to be osculating if the walkers never share an edge, and vicious (or: non-intersecting) if they never meet. We give a closed form expression for the generating function of osculating configurations starting from prescribed points. This generating function turns out to be algebraic. We also relate the enumeration of osculating configurations with prescribed starting and ending points to the (better understood) enumeration of non-intersecting configurations. Our method is based on a step by step decomposition of osculating configurations, and on the solution of the functional equation provided by this decomposition.
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