Enumeration of Lozenge tilings of hexagons with a central triangular hole (Q5947364)

The paper deals with enumerations of Lozenge tiles of a hexagon with side lengths \(a,b+m,c,a+m,b,c+m\), where an equilateral triangle of side length \(m\) has been removed from the centre. (The precise definition of the centre depends on the parity of \(a,b,c.)\) In case \(a=b=c\), each cyclically symmetric tiling can be assigned as a weight a power of a 6th root of unity, and for \(m=0\), these weighted enumerations of Lozenge tiles provide statements about weighted enumerations of cyclically symmetric plane partitions. The proofs involve the theory of nonintersecting lattice paths and determinant evaluations.