Lattice walk area combinatorics, some remarkable trigonometric sums and Apéry-like numbers

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.115174zbMATH Open1482.82031arXiv2006.06445OpenAlexW4287760822MaRDI QIDQ823002FDOQ823002

Authors: S. Ouvry, Alexios P. Polychronakos 

Publication date: 24 September 2021

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Explicit algebraic area enumeration formulae are derived for various lattice walks generalizing the canonical square lattice walk, and in particular for the triangular lattice chiral walk recently introduced by the authors. A key element in the enumeration is the derivation of some remarkable identities involving trigonometric sums --which are also important building blocks of non trivial quantum models such as the Hofstadter model-- and their explicit rewriting in terms of multiple binomial sums. An intriguing connection is also made with number theory and some classes of Ap'ery-like numbers, the cousins of the Ap'ery numbers which play a central role in irrationality considerations for {zeta}(2) and {zeta}(3).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06445

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic area enumeration formulaetriangular lattice chiral walks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Random walks on graphs (05C81) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83)

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• ‘‘Fractional statistics’’ in arbitrary dimensions: A generalization of the Pauli principle
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• The algebraic area of closed lattice random walks

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• On an approach for evaluating certain trigonometric character sums using the discrete time heat kernel
• Exclusion statistics for particles with a discrete spectrum
• Algebraic area enumeration for open lattice walks

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