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arxiv: 1803.10920 · v3 · pith:BWGNWBIZnew · submitted 2018-03-29 · 🧮 math.CO

Lattice Walk Enumeration

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Trying to enumerate all of the walks in a 2D lattice is a fun combinatorial problem and there are numerous applications, from polymers to sports. Computers provide a wonderful tool for analyzing these walks; we provide a Maple package for automatically describing generating functions of walks restricted to any step set in a 2D lattice. We always obtain a closed system of relations for generating functions of walks that are bounded, semi-bounded, or unbounded. For bounded walks, this leads to explicit rational solutions! For semi-bounded or unbounded walks, we may get lucky and obtain algebraic solutions; if not, we still have a short self-referential description of the generating function.

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