The number of rhombus tilings of a "punctured" hexagon and the minor summation formula

dc.creatorOkada, Soichi
dc.creatorKrattenthaler, Christian
dc.date1997-11-26
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dc.descriptionWe compute the number of all rhombus tilings of a hexagon with sides $a,b+1,c,a+1,b,c+1$, of which the central triangle is removed, provided $a,b,c$ have the same parity. The result is a product of four numbers, each of which counts the number of plane partitions inside a given box. The proof uses nonintersecting lattice paths and a new identity for Schur functions, which is proved by means of the minor summation formula of Ishikawa and Wakayama. A symmetric generalization of this identity is stated as a conjecture.
dc.description21 pages, AmS-TeX, uses TeXDraw
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/9712203
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/9712203
dc.identifierAdv. Appl. Math. 21 1998, 381-404
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/76389
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject05A15 05A17 05A19 05B45 05E05 52C20
dc.titleThe number of rhombus tilings of a "punctured" hexagon and the minor summation formula
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