Two non-holonomic lattice walks in the quarter plane
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We present two classes of random walks restricted to the quarter plane whose generating function is not holonomic. The non-holonomy is established using the iterated kernel method, a recent variant of the kernel method. This adds evidence to a recent conjecture on combinatorial properties of walks with holonomic generating functions. The method also yields an asymptotic expression for the number of walks of length n. keywords: random walks, enumeration, holonomic, generating functions, kernel method
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Theor. Comput. Sci.
دوره 410 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009