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McMahon's Formula via Free Fermions

Combinatorics 2012-10-29 v1

Abstract

We give an elementary derivation of the vertex-operator derivation McMahon formula, counting all plane partitions of all size into a single generating function. We fill in some details appearing in Okounkov, Reshetikhin, and Vafa based on free fermions by defining an "interlacing operator".

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@article{arxiv.1210.7109,
  title  = {McMahon's Formula via Free Fermions},
  author = {John Mangual},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.7109},
  year   = {2012}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure