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The number of monotone triangles with prescribed bottom row

Ilse Fischer

math.COarXiv:math/0501102

Abstract

We show that the number of monotone triangles with prescribed bottom row (k1,...,kn) is given by a simple product formula which remarkably involves (shift) operators. Monotone triangles with bottom row (1,2,...,n) are in bijection with n × n alternating sign matrices.

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