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An Algebraic Interpretation of the Super Catalan Numbers

Combinatorics 2023-06-26 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We extend the notion of polynomial integration over an arbitrary circle CC in the Euclidean geometry over general fields F\mathbb F of characteristic zero as a normalized F\mathbb F-linear functional on F[α1,α2]\mathbb{F}\left[\alpha_1, \alpha_2\right] that takes polynomials that evaluate to zero on CC to zero and is SO(2,F)\mathrm{SO}(2,\mathbb{F})-invariant. This allows us to not only build a purely algebraic integration theory in an elementary way, but also give the super Catalan numbers S(m,n)=(2m)!(2n)!m!n!(m+n)!S(m,n) = \frac{(2m)!(2n)!}{m!n!(m+n)!} an algebraic interpretation in terms of values of this algebraic integral over some circle applied to the monomials α12mα22n\alpha_1^{2m}\alpha_2^{2n}.

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@article{arxiv.2306.13117,
  title  = {An Algebraic Interpretation of the Super Catalan Numbers},
  author = {Kevin Limanta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.13117},
  year   = {2023}
}

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