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Some determinants of path generating functions
We evaluate four families of determinants of matrices, where the entries are
sums or differences of generating functions for paths consisting of up-steps,
down-steps and level steps. By specialisation, these determinant evaluations
have numerous corollaries. In particular, they cover numerous determinant
evaluations of combinatorial numbers - most notably of Catalan, ballot, and of
Motzkin numbers - that appeared previously in the literature.Comment: 35 pages, AmS-TeX; minor corrections; final version to appear in Adv.
Appl. Mat
Advanced Determinant Calculus: A Complement
This is a complement to my previous article "Advanced Determinant Calculus"
(S\'eminaire Lotharingien Combin. 42 (1999), Article B42q, 67 pp.). In the
present article, I share with the reader my experience of applying the methods
described in the previous article in order to solve a particular problem from
number theory (G. Almkvist, J. Petersson and the author, Experiment. Math. 12
(2003), 441-456). Moreover, I add a list of determinant evaluations which I
consider as interesting, which have been found since the appearance of the
previous article, or which I failed to mention there, including several
conjectures and open problems.Comment: AmS-LaTeX, 85 pages; Final, largely revised versio
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