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Linear recurrences for cylindrical networks

Combinatorics 2018-05-04 v3

Abstract

We prove a general theorem that gives a linear recurrence for tuples of paths in every cylindrical network. This can be seen as a cylindrical analog of the Lindstr\"om-Gessel-Viennot theorem. We illustrate the result by applying it to Schur functions, plane partitions, and domino tilings.

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@article{arxiv.1704.05160,
  title  = {Linear recurrences for cylindrical networks},
  author = {Pavel Galashin and Pavlo Pylyavskyy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.05160},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

32 pages, 9 figures; v3: references updated and added a conjecture on total positivity

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