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Rhombus Tilings of a Hexagon with Three Fixed Border Tiles

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We compute the number of rhombus tilings of a hexagon with sides a+2,b+2,c+2,a+2,b+2,c+2a+2,b+2,c+2,a+2,b+2,c+2 with three fixed tiles touching the border. The particular case a=b=ca=b=c solves a problem posed by Propp. Our result can also be viewed as the enumeration of plane partitions having a+2a+2 rows and b+2b+2 columns, with largest entry c+2\le c+2, with a given number of entries c+2c+2 in the first row, a given number of entries 0 in the last column and a given bottom-left entry.

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@article{arxiv.math/9712261,
  title  = {Rhombus Tilings of a Hexagon with Three Fixed Border Tiles},
  author = {Theresia Eisenkölbl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9712261},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages, AmS-LaTeX, uses TeXDraw; revised version which is to appear in J. Combin. Theory Ser. A