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Nick Loehr

Virginia Tech



Bijections, Lattice Paths, and Probability



September 10, 2008
3pm, 104 SEC
  



Abstract
 

In bijective combinatorics, one seeks to prove that two sets have the same size by constructing an explicit one-to-one correspondence between them. We will introduce this subject by surveying some remarkable bijections involving lattice paths and Catalan numbers. In particular, we describe a surprising relationship between Catalan structures and the Central Limit Theorem from probability theory. If time allows, a brief introduction to quantum Catalan numbers will also be given.






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