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Hyperbolic Pascal triangles

History and Overview 2017-12-22 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new generalization of Pascal's triangle. The new object is called the hyperbolic Pascal triangle since the mathematical background goes back to regular mosaics on the hyperbolic plane. We describe precisely the procedure of how to obtain a given type of hyperbolic Pascal triangle from a mosaic. Then we study certain quantitative properties such as the number, the sum, and the alternating sum of the elements of a row. Moreover, the pattern of the rows, and the appearence of some binary recurrences in a fixed hyperbolic triangle are investigated.

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@article{arxiv.1503.02569,
  title  = {Hyperbolic Pascal triangles},
  author = {Hacene Belbachir and László Németh and László Szalay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02569},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages, 15 figures

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