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Touchard-Riordan formulas, T-fractions, and Jacobi's triple product identity

Matthieu Josuat-Vergès ORCID (1), Jang-Soo Kim (2)
(1) Fakultät für Mathematik [Wien]
(2) School of Mathematics
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DMTCS Proceedings vol. AO, 23rd International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2011)
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Touchard-Riordan formulas, T-fractions, and Jacobi's triple product identity

Matthieu Josuat-Vergès ORCID (1), Jang-Soo Kim (2)
(1) Fakultät für Mathematik [Wien]
(2) School of Mathematics
Abstract
English
We give a combinatorial proof of a Touchard-Riordan-like formula discovered by the first author. As a consequence we find a connection between his formula and Jacobi's triple product identity. We then give a combinatorial analog of Jacobi's triple product identity by showing that a finite sum can be interpreted as a generating function of weighted Schröder paths, so that the triple product identity is recovered by taking the limit. This can be stated in terms of some continued fractions called T-fractions, whose important property is the fact that they satisfy some functional equation. We show that this result permits to explain and generalize some Touchard-Riordan-like formulas appearing in enumerative problems.
French
Nous donnons une preuve combinatoire d'une formule à la Touchard-Riordan due au premier auteur. En conséquence, nous faisons appara\^ıtre un lien entre cette formule et l'identité du produit triple de Jacobi. Nous donnons un analogue combinatoire à l'identité du produit triple en montrant qu'une somme finie peut être interprétée comme fonction génératrice de chemins de Schröder pondérés, de sorte que l'identité du produit triple s'obtient en passant à la limite. Ceci peut être énoncé en termes de fractions continues appelées T-fractions, dont la propriété importante est le fait qu'elle satisfont certaines équations fonctionnelles. Nous montrons que ce résultat permet d'expliquer et généraliser certaines formules à la Touchard-Riordan apparaissant dans des problèmes d'énumération.
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  • [MATH.MATH-CO]Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO]
  • [INFO.INFO-DM]Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]
  • Jacobi's triple product identity
  • continued fractions
  • enumeration
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    Journal reference : Volume 35, 2012, pp. 431-445

    DOI : 10.2989/16073606.2012.742240
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