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On the number of fully packed loop configurations with a fixed associated matching

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that the number of fully packed loop configurations corresponding to a matching with mm nested arches is polynomial in mm if mm is large enough, thus essentially proving two conjectures by Zuber [Electronic J. Combin. 11 (2004), Article #R13].

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@article{arxiv.math/0502392,
  title  = {On the number of fully packed loop configurations with a fixed associated matching},
  author = {Fabrizio Caselli and Christian Krattenthaler and Bodo Lass and Philippe Nadeau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0502392},
  year   = {2007}
}

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AnS-LaTeX, 43 pages; Journal version

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