dmtcs:6341 -
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
April 22, 2020,
DMTCS Proceedings, 28th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2016)
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.6341
Fully packed loop configurations : polynomiality and nested archesArticle
Authors: Florian Aigner 1
0000-0002-8093-0974
Florian Aigner
1 Fakultät für Mathematik [Wien]
This extended abstract proves that the number of fully packed loop configurations whose link pattern consists of two noncrossing matchings separated by m nested arches is a polynomial in m. This was conjectured by Zuber (2004) and for large values of m proved by Caselli et al. (2004)