The other dual of MacMahon's theorem on plane partitions

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• 作者：Mihai Ciucu ^{mciucu@indiana.edu}
• 关键词：Plane partitions ; MacMahon's boxed plane partitions theorem ; Lozenge tilings
• 刊名：Advances in Mathematics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：14 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：306
• 期：Complete
• 页码：427-450
• 全文大小：594 K
• 卷排序：306

文摘

In this paper we introduce a counterpart structure to the shamrocks studied in the paper A dual of Macmahon's theorem on plane partitions by M. Ciucu and C. Krattenthaler (2013) [5], which, just like the latter, can be included at the center of a lattice hexagon on the triangular lattice so that the region obtained from the hexagon by removing it has its number of lozenge tilings given by a simple product formula. The new structure, called a fern, consists of an arbitrary number of equilateral triangles of alternating orientations lined up along a lattice line. The shamrock and the fern seem to be the only such connected structures with this property. It would be interesting to understand the reason for this.