Thomas Feierl - The height of watermelons with wall - Extended Abstract

dmtcs:3532 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2007, DMTCS Proceedings vol. AH, 2007 Conference on Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 07) - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3532
The height of watermelons with wall - Extended AbstractConference paper

Authors: Thomas Feierl 1

  • 1 Fakultät für Mathematik [Wien]


We derive asymptotics for the moments of the height distribution of watermelons with $p$ branches with wall. This generalises a famous result by de Bruijn, Knuth and Rice on the average height of planted plane trees, and a result by Fulmek on the average height of watermelons with two branches.

https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3532
Source: HAL:hal-01184780v1
Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AH, 2007 Conference on Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 07)
Section: Proceedings
Published on: January 1, 2007
Imported on: May 10, 2017
Keywords: [INFO.INFO-DS]Computer Science [cs]/Data Structures and Algorithms [cs.DS], [INFO.INFO-DM]Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM], [MATH.MATH-CO]Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO], [INFO.INFO-CG]Computer Science [cs]/Computational Geometry [cs.CG], [en] watermelon configuration, vicious walkers, average height, planted plane trees

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