Watermelon configurations with wall interaction: exact and asymptotic results
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Publication:6475641
DOI10.1088/1742-6596/42/1/017arXivmath/0506323MaRDI QIDQ6475641FDOQ6475641
Publication date: 16 June 2005
Abstract: We perform an exact and asymptotic analysis of the model of vicious walkers interacting with a wall via contact potentials, a model introduced by Brak, Essam and Owczarek. More specifically, we study the partition function of watermelon configurations which start on the wall, but may end at arbitrary height, and their mean number of contacts with the wall. We improve and extend the earlier (partially non-rigorous) results by Brak, Essam and Owczarek, providing new exact results, and more precise and more general asymptotic results, in particular full asymptotic expansions for the partition function and the mean number of contacts. Furthermore, we relate this circle of problems to earlier results in the combinatorial and statistical literature.
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