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Variations of the Catalan numbers from some nonassociative binary operations

Combinatorics 2021-10-25 v4

Abstract

We investigate certain nonassociative binary operations that satisfy a four-parameter generalization of the associative law. From this we obtain variations of the ubiquitous Catalan numbers and connections to many interesting combinatorial objects such as binary trees, plane trees, lattice paths, and permutations.

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@article{arxiv.1807.04623,
  title  = {Variations of the Catalan numbers from some nonassociative binary operations},
  author = {Nickolas Hein and Jia Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.04623},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

21 pages, revised based on referees' suggestions

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