A combinatorial proof of Sun's "curious" identity
Combinatorics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A binomial coefficient identity due to Zhi-Wei Sun is the subject of half a dozen recent papers that prove it by various analytic techniques and establish a generalization. Here we give a simple proof that uses weight-reversing involutions on suitable configurations involving dominos and colorings. With somewhat more work, the method extends to the generalization also.
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@article{arxiv.math/0401216,
title = {A combinatorial proof of Sun's "curious" identity},
author = {David Callan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0401216},
year = {2007}
}
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Latex, 7 pages