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We extend Schaeffer's bijection between rooted quadrangulations and well-labeled trees to the general case of Eulerian planar maps with prescribed face valences, to obtain a bijection with a new class of labeled trees, which we call…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Bouttier , P. Di Francesco , E. Guitter

Motivated by the bijection between Schnyder labelings of a plane triangulation and partitions of its inner edges into three trees, we look for binary labelings for quadrangulations (whose edges can be partitioned into two trees). Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Stefan Felsner , Clemens Huemer , Sarah Kappes , David Orden

Gamma-positivity appears frequently in finite geometries, combinatorics and number theory. Motivated by the recent work of Sagan and Tirrell (Adv. Math., 374 (2020), 107387), we study the relationships between gamma-positivity and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Shi-Mei Ma , Hao Qi , Jean Yeh , Yeong-Nan Yeh

We present a new definition of non-ambiguous trees (NATs) as labelled binary trees. We thus get a differential equation whose solution can be described combinatorially. This yields a new formula for the number of NATs. We also obtain…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Bérénice Delcroix-Oger , Florent Hivert , Patxi Laborde-Zubieta , Jean-Christophe Aval , Adrien Boussicault

Peca suggested in a recent paper on the arxiv to consider binary butterfly trees and their Horton-Strahler numbers. The trees are obtained by glueing two binary trees together in a special way; the results are again binary trees but with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Helmut Prodinger

Han recently discovered new hook length identities for binary trees. In this paper, we extend Han's identities to binomial families of trees. Moreover, we present a bijective proof of one of the identities for the family of ordered trees.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-02 Laura L. M. Yang

Trees or rooted trees have been generously studied in the literature. A forest is a set of trees or rooted trees. Here we give recurrence relations between the number of some kind of rooted forest with $k$ roots and that with $k+1$ roots on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Song Guo , Victor J. W. Guo

In the present paper we find a new interpretation of Narayana polynomials N_n(x) which are the generating polynomials for the Narayana numbers N_{n,k} counting Dyck paths of length n and with exactly k peaks. Strangely enough Narayana…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-04-08 Vladimir Kostov , Boris Shapiro

This paper is motivated by two problems recently proposed by Coker on combinatorial identities related to the Narayana polynomials and the Catalan numbers. We find that a bijection of Chen, Deutsch and Elizalde can be used to provide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William Y. C. Chen , Sherry H. F. Yan , Laura L. M. Yang

Presented are polynomial identities which imply generalizations of Euler and Rogers--Ramanujan identities. Both sides of the identities can be interpreted as generating functions of certain restricted partitions. We prove the identities by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Omar Foda , Yas-Hiro Quano

A unicellular map, or one-face map, is a graph embedded in an orientable surface such that its complement is a topological disk. In this paper, we give a new viewpoint to the structure of these objects, by describing a decomposition of any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Guillaume Chapuy

In this paper we study pairs of polynomials with a given factorization pattern and such that the degree of their difference attains its minimum. We call such pairs of polynomials Davenport--Zannier pairs, or DZ-pairs for short. The paper is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Fedor Pakovich , Alexander K. Zvonkin

Chen, Deutsch and Elizalde introduced a refinement of the Narayana polynomials by distinguishing between old (leftmost child) and young leaves of plane trees. They also provided a refinement of Coker's formula by constructing a bijection.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Janet J. W. Dong , Lora R. Du , Kathy Q. Ji , Dax T. X. Zhang

Based on weighted noncrossing partitions of type B, we obtain type B analogues of Coker's identities on the Narayana polynomials. A parity reversing involution is given for the alternating sum of Narayana numbers of type B. Moreover, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-18 William Y. C. Chen , Andrew Y. Z. Wang , Alina F. Y. Zhao

We introduce a refinement of Boolean-Catalan numbers and call them Boolean-Narayana numbers. We provide an explicit formula for these numbers, and prove unimodality, log-concavity, and real-roots-only results for their sequences. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Miklos Bona

We establish a tantalizing symmetry of certain numbers refining the Narayana numbers. In terms of Dyck paths, this symmetry is interpreted in the following way: if $w_{n,k,m}$ is the number of Dyck paths of semilength $n$ with $k$…

We introduce a simple bijection between Tamari intervals and the blossoming trees (Poulalhon and Schaeffer, 2006) encoding planar triangulations, using a new meandering representation of such trees. Its specializations to the families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Wenjie Fang , Éric Fusy , Philippe Nadeau

We provide a short combinatorial proof of Cayley's formula by means of a bijective map to an outcome space of an urn-drawing problem. Furthermore we introduce an algebraic structure on the set of labeled trees, which provides a more…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-01 Victor N. Ermolaev , Giulio Iacobelli

Plane increasing trees are rooted labeled trees embedded into the plane such that the sequence of labels is increasing on any branch starting at the root. Relaxed binary trees are a subclass of unlabeled directed acyclic graphs. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Michael Wallner

We lift to the multivariate Eulerian polynomials the identity implying that univariate Eulerian polynomials are palindromic. As a consequence of this generalization, we obtain nice combinatorial identities that can be directly extracted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Alejandro González Nevado