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Motzkin excursions and meanders are revisited. This is considered in the context of forbidden patterns. Previous work by Asinowski, Banderier, Gittenberger, and Roitner is continued. Motzkin paths of bounded height are considered, leading…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Helmut Prodinger

Motzkin paths consist of up-steps, down-steps, horizontal steps, never go below the $x$-axis and return to the $x$-axis. Versions where the return to the $x$-axis isn't required are also considered. A path is peakless (valleyless) if $UD$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Helmut Prodinger

We compute the limiting distribution of height of a random discrete excursion with step sets consisting of one positive step 1 and arbitrary finite set of non-positive integers. The limit law is the supremum of a Brownian excursion. This is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-14 Uwe Schwerdtfeger

Motivated by the image denoising problem and the undesirable stair-casing effect of the total variation method, we introduce bounded variation spaces with generalized Orlicz growth. Our setup covers earlier variable exponent and double…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Michela Eleuteri , Petteri Harjulehto , Peter Hästö

The sequence A176677 in the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences enumerates Motzkin paths where two types of horizontal steps may occur, but only on odd indexed levels. We show how to perform the enumeration, also dealing with partial such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Helmut Prodinger

A multiscale optimization framework for problems over a space of Lipschitz continuous functions is developed. The method solves a coarse-grid discretization followed by linear interpolation to warm-start project gradient descent on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nicholas J. E. Richardson , Noah Marusenko , Michael P. Friedlander

Motzkin paths are simple yet important combinatorial objects. In this paper, we consider families of Motzkin paths with restrictions on peak heights, valley heights, upward-run lengths, downward-run lengths, and flat-run lengths. This paper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-07 AJ Bu

Generalized sampling consists in the recovery of a function $f$, from the samples of the responses of a collection of linear shift-invariant systems to the input $f$. The reconstructed function is typically a member of a finitely generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Alexis Goujon , Shayan Aziznejad , Alireza Naderi , Michael Unser

This paper introduces nondeterministic walks, a new variant of one-dimensional discrete walks. At each step, a nondeterministic walk draws a random set of steps from a predefined set of sets and explores all possible extensions in parallel.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Elie De Panafieu , Mohamed Lamine Lamali , Michael Wallner

We investigate paths in the hexagonal circle packing and enumerate them with respect to width, height, number of steps, area, and kissing number. Functional equations and the kernel method yield closed bivariate generating functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Jean-Luc Baril , José Luis Ramí rez

In this thesis we develop generalized versions of the Chung-Feller theorem for lattice paths constrained in the half plane. The beautiful cycle method which was developed by Devoretzky and Motzkin as a means to prove the ballot problem is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-07-21 Aminul Huq

Inspired by a new mathematical model for bobbin lace, this paper considers finite lattice paths formed from the set of step vectors $\mathfrak{A}=$$\{\rightarrow,$ $\nearrow,$ $\searrow,$ $\uparrow,$ $\downarrow\}$ with the restriction that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Veronika Irvine , Stephen Melczer , Frank Ruskey

Motzkin paths with air pockets (MAP) are defined as a generalization of Dyck paths with air pockets by adding some horizontal steps with certain conditions. In this paper, we introduce two generalizations. The first one consists of lattice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Jean-Luc Baril , Paul Barry

Let S be a finite subset of Z^2. A walk on the slit plane with steps in S is a sequence (0,0)=w_0, w_1, ..., w_n of points of Z^2 such that w_{i+1}-w_i belongs to S for all i, and none of the points w_i, i>0, lie on the half-line H= {(k,0):…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Mireille Bousquet-Melou

Lattice paths called $\ell$-Schr\"oder paths are introduced. They are paths on the upper half-plane consisting of $\ell+2$ types of steps: $(i,\ell-i)$ for $i=0,\ldots,\ell$, and $(1,-1)$. Those paths generalize Schr\"oder paths and some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Mawo Ito

In this manuscript we consider the set of Dyck paths equipped with the uniform measure, and we study the statistical properties of a deformation of the observable "area below the Dyck path" as the size $N$ of the path goes to infinity. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Sergio Caracciolo , Vittorio Erba , Andrea Sportiello

The statistics of the average height fluctuation of the one-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang(KPZ)-type surface is investigated. Guided by the idea of local stationarity, we derive the scaling form of the characteristic function in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Deok-Sun Lee , Doochul Kim

We consider paths in the plane with $(1,0),$ $(0,1),$ and $(a,b)$-steps that start at the origin, end at height $n,$ and stay to the left of a given non-decreasing right boundary. We show that if the boundary is periodic and has slope at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-27 Joseph P. S. Kung , Anna de Mier , Xinyu Sun , Catherine H. Yan

We study the ballistic deposition and the grain deposition models on two-dimensional substrates. Using the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) ansatz for height fluctuations, we show that the main contribution to the intrinsic width, which causes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-24 Sidiney G. Alves , Tiago J. Oliveira , Silvio C. Ferreira

We introduce a systematic method for extracting multivariable universal scaling functions and critical exponents from data. We exemplify our insights by analyzing simulations of avalanches in an interface using simulations from a driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-06 Yan-Jiun Chen , Stefanos Papanikolaou , James P. Sethna , Stefano Zapperi , Gianfranco Durin