A note on 2-distant noncrossing partitions and weighted Motzkin paths

نویسندگان

  • Ira M. Gessel
  • Jang Soo Kim
چکیده

We prove a conjecture of Drake and Kim: the number of 2-distant noncrossing partitions of {1, 2, . . . , n} is equal to the sum of weights of Motzkin paths of length n, where the weight of a Motzkin path is a product of certain fractions involving Fibonacci numbers. We provide two proofs of their conjecture: one uses continued fractions and the other is combinatorial.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete Mathematics

دوره 310  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010