A probabilistic approach to enumeration of Gessel walks

dc.creatorPing, Sun
dc.date2009-03-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:48:09Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:48:09Z
dc.descriptionWe consider Gessel walks in the plane starting at the origin $(0, 0)$ remaining in the first quadrant $i, j \geq 0$ and made of West, North-East, East and South-West steps. Let $F(m; n_1, n_2)$ denote the number of these walks with exact $m$ steps ending at the point $(n_1, n_2)$, Petkovšek and Wilf posed several analogous conjectures similar to the famous Gessel's conjecture. We establish a probabilistic model of Gessel walks which is concerned with the problem of vicious walkers. This model helps us to obtain the linear homogeneous recurrence relations with binomial coefficients for both $F(n+k+r;n+k-r,n)$ and $F(n+2k; n, 0)$. Precisely, $\frac{n! k! (n+k+1)!}{(2n+2)!} F(2n+2k;0,n)$ is a polynomial with all integer coefficients which leading term is $2^{3k-2} n^{2k-2}$, and $\frac{k! (k+1)!}{n+1} F(n+2k;n,0)$ is a polynomial with all integer coefficients which leading term is $n^{2k-1}$. Hence two conjectures of Petkovšek and Wilf are solved.
dc.description14 pages, 2 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0277
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0277
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/221955
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject05A15; 05D40
dc.titleA probabilistic approach to enumeration of Gessel walks
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