Title
Bijective counting of plane bipolar orientations
Abstract
We introduce a bijection between plane bipolar orientations with fixed numbers of vertices and faces, and non-intersecting triples of upright lattice paths with some specific extremities. Writing ϑij for the number of plane bipolar orientations with (i+1) vertices and (j+1) faces, our bijection provides a combinatorial proof of the following formula due to Baxter:(1)ϑij=2(i+j−2)!(i+j−1)!(i+j)!(i−1)!i!(i+1)!(j−1)!j!(j+1)!.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.endm.2007.07.049
Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
bijection,bipolar orientations,non-intersecting paths
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Bijection,Vertex (geometry),Lattice (order),Combinatorial proof,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
29
1571-0653
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Éric Fusy119821.95
Dominique Poulalhon21279.73
Gilles Schaeffer342344.82