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The many faces of alternating-sign matrices

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I give a survey of different combinatorial forms of alternating-sign matrices, starting with the original form introduced by Mills, Robbins and Rumsey as well as corner-sum matrices, height-function matrices, three-colorings, monotone triangles, tetrahedral order ideals, square ice, gasket-and-basket tilings and full packings of loops.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0208125,
  title  = {The many faces of alternating-sign matrices},
  author = {James Propp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0208125},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

22 pages, 16 figures; presented at "Discrete Models" conference (Paris, July 2001)

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