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Counting interesting elections

Combinatorics 2010-03-15 v2

Abstract

We provide an elementary proof of a formula for the number of northeast lattice paths that lie in a certain region of the plane. Equivalently, this formula counts the lattice points inside the Pitman--Stanley polytope of an n-tuple.

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@article{arxiv.0810.2313,
  title  = {Counting interesting elections},
  author = {Lara K. Pudwell and Eric S. Rowland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2313},
  year   = {2010}
}

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7 pages, 1 figure; published version

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