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