Generating Functions of Embedded Trees and Lattice Paths

  • Authors:
  • Markus Kuba

  • Affiliations:
  • (The author was supported by the Austrian Science Foundation FWF, grant S9608-N13) Institut für Diskrete Mathematik und Geometrie, Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/104 ...

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae - Lattice Path Combinatorics and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Bouttier, Di Francesco and Guitter introduced a method for solving certain classes of algebraic recurrence relations arising the context of maps and embedded trees. The aim of this note is to apply their method, consisting of a suitable ansatz and (computer assisted) guessing, to three problems, all related to the enumeration of lattice paths. First, we derive the generating function of a family of embedded binary trees, unifying some earlier results in the literature. Second, we show that several enumeration problems concerning so-called simple families of lattice paths can be solved without using the kernel method. Third, we use their method to (re-)derive the length generating function of three vicious walkers and osculating walkers.