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Vicious walkers and Young tableaux I: without walls

Anthony J Guttmann-+, Aleksander L Owczarek-+ and Xavier G Viennot++

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We rederive previously known results for the number of star and watermelon configurations by showing that these follow immediately from standard results in the theory of Young tableaux and integer partitions. In this way we provide a proof of a result, previously only conjectured, for the total number of stars.


PACS

05.40.Fb Random walks and Levy flights

05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)

MSC

05E10 Tableaux, representations of the symmetric group (See also 20C30)

82B41 Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. (See also 60G50, 82C41)

65Q05 Difference and functional equations, recurrence relations

Subjects

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 40 (9 October 1998)

Received 20 January 1998



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