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Research paper thumbnail of Trees everywhere (invited lecture)

Research paper thumbnail of Combinatorial analysis of ramified patterns and computer imagery of trees

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 1989

Herein is presented a new procedural method for generating images of trees. Many other algorithms... more Herein is presented a new procedural method for generating images of trees. Many other algorithms have already been proposed in the last few years focusing on particle systems, fractals, graftals and L-systems or realistic botanical models. Usually the final visual aspect of the tree depends on the development process leading to this form. Our approach differs from all the previous ones. We begin by defining a certain "measure" of the form of a tree or a branching pattern. This is done by introducing the new concept of ramification matrix of a tree. Then we give an algorithm for generating a random tree having as ramification matrix a given arbitrary stochastic triangular matrix. The geometry of the tree is defined from the combinatorial parameters implied in the analysis of the forms of trees. We obtain a method with powerful control of the final form, simple enough to produce quick designs of trees without loosing in the variety and rendering of the images. We also intro...

Research paper thumbnail of An identity on Thron’s dual continued fractions

Annales des Sciences Mathematiques du Quebec

Nous construisons une famille de series formelles en deux variables dont tout element f(y, t) adm... more Nous construisons une famille de series formelles en deux variables dont tout element f(y, t) admet un developpement U en T-fraction, par rapport a la variable t, tel que la T-fraction duale U * est un developpement de f(t, y -1 ), toujours par rapport a t. Ce resultat est etabli grâce a une interpretation combinatoire du couple (U, U * ). Nous donnons l'exemple de la serie generatrice des polyominos parallelogrammes, qui fait intervenir des q-analogues de fonctions de Bessel.

Research paper thumbnail of Computing Iterated Derivatives Along Trajectories of Nonlinear Systems

Nonlinear Control Systems Design 1992, 1993

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses computing iterated derivatives along trajectories of non... more Publisher Summary This chapter discusses computing iterated derivatives along trajectories of nonlinear systems. It describes the theory of species. This theory combines the usual language of formal power series with the classical enumeration formulas. It allows to compute specific coefficients in the development of the solution of nonlinear differential equations. It develops a convenient language for the description of systems. The theory of species shows the internal structure of the classical algebric manipulations and synthetizes a long development into the description of a certain class of arborescences. This approach is particularly efficient for the design of computer algebra algorithms. There are new developments in this direction. Classical developments on implicit polynomial differential equations are also possible.

Research paper thumbnail of Trees everywhere

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1990

Page 1. TREES EVERYWHERE Xavier G6rard VIENNOT1 LaBRI2, Universit6 de Bordeaux I 33405 TALENCE Ce... more Page 1. TREES EVERYWHERE Xavier G6rard VIENNOT1 LaBRI2, Universit6 de Bordeaux I 33405 TALENCE Cedex, France ... Page 2. 19 It was started in Hydrogeology by Horton [28] and Strahler [70] in some work about the morphological structure of river networks. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Algèbres de Lie Libres et Monoïdes Libres

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1978

Bases des algebres de Lie libres et factorisations des monofdes libres.

Research paper thumbnail of A Survey of polyomino enumeration

Research paper thumbnail of Une th eorie combinatoire des polyn^omes orthogonaux g en eraux

Research paper thumbnail of Heaps of pieces I: Basic de?nitions and combinatorial lemmas

Research paper thumbnail of Moments des q-Polynômes de Laguerre et la Bijection de Foata-Zeilberger

Advances in Applied Mathematics, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Probl emes combinatoires pos es par la physique statistique

... Des résultats exacts en dimension d=2 (nombre d'animaux, largeur moyenne,:.) ont été démo... more ... Des résultats exacts en dimension d=2 (nombre d'animaux, largeur moyenne,:.) ont été démontrés par Derrida, Hakim, Nadal et Vannimenus [17] ,[ 21] , ainsi que par Dhar [12] ,[13] en dimension d=2 et 3 . Ce dernier montre l'équivalence avec le modèle de gaz des hexagones ...

Research paper thumbnail of Determinants, Paths, and Plane Partitions

Introduction In studying representability of matroids, Lindstrom [42] gave a combinatorial interp... more Introduction In studying representability of matroids, Lindstrom [42] gave a combinatorial interpretation to certain determinants in terms of disjoint paths in digraphs. In a previous paper [25], the authors applied this theorem to determinants of binomial coe#cients. Here we develop further applications. As in [25], the paths under consideration are lattice paths in the plane. Our applications may be divided into two classes: first are those in which a determinant is shown to count some objects of combinatorial interest, and second are those which give a combinatorial interpretation to some numbers which are of independent interest. In the first class are formulas for various types of plane partitions, and in the second class are combinatorial interpretations for Fibonomial coe#cients, Bernoulli numbers, and the less-known Salie and Faulhaber numbers (which arise in formulas for sums of powers, and are closely related to Genocchi and Bernoulli numbers). Other enumerative appl

Research paper thumbnail of Chains and antichain families, grids and Young Tableaux

Research paper thumbnail of A Combinatorial Interpretation of the Quotient-Difference Algorithm

Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, 2000

During the last thirty years, a growing interest for Pade approximants appeared in many theoretic... more During the last thirty years, a growing interest for Pade approximants appeared in many theoretical and applied fields, such as numerical analysis, theoretical physics, chemistry, electronics, … as shown in the books Baker [1], Baker, Graves-Morris [2], Brezinski [3], Gilewicz [11]. Pade approximants are strongly connected with continued fractions (see for example Henrici [16], Jones, Thron [17], Wall [25]) and orthogonal polynomials (see for example Brezinski [4, 5], Draux [7], Van Rossum [22], Wynn [26]). The so-called quotient-difference algorithm, or qd-algorithm, plays an important role in these theories. It was originated in Steifel [21] and studied by Rutishauser [19], Henrici [16,15]. (See also Brezinski [5], Gragg [12]).

Research paper thumbnail of Enumeration of RNA Secondary Structures by Complexity

Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Combinatorial tools for the analysis of ramified patterns

Journal of Statistical Physics, 1989

Tree-like patterns appear in many domains of physics and the quantitative description of their mo... more Tree-like patterns appear in many domains of physics and the quantitative description of their morphology raises an interesting problem. To analyze their topological structure, we introduce combinatorial concepts, the bifurcation and length ratios and the ramification matrix, which generalize ideas originating in hydrogeology. Two-dimensional diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) patterns are studied along these lines, and their statistical combinatorial properties are compared

Research paper thumbnail of The Product of Trees in the Loday–Ronco Algebra Through Catalan Alternative Tableaux

Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 2010

The aim of this note is to show how the introduction of certain tableaux, called Catalan alternat... more The aim of this note is to show how the introduction of certain tableaux, called Catalan alternative tableaux, provides a very simple and elegant description of the product in the Hopf algebra of binary trees defined by Loday and Ronco. Moreover, we use this description to introduce a new associative product on the space of binary trees.

Research paper thumbnail of Combinatorial tools for the analysis of ramified patterns

Journal of Statistical Physics, 1989

Tree-like patterns appear in many domains of physics and the quantitative description of their mo... more Tree-like patterns appear in many domains of physics and the quantitative description of their morphology raises an interesting problem. To analyze their topological structure, we introduce combinatorial concepts, the bifurcation and length ratios and the ramification matrix, which generalize ideas originating in hydrogeology. Two-dimensional diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) patterns are studied along these lines, and their statistical combinatorial properties are compared to those of random and growing binary trees and to experimental data for injection of water in clay.

Research paper thumbnail of Empilements de segments et q-énumération de polyominos convexes dirigés

Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Determinants, Paths, and Plane Partitions

Introduction In studying representability of matroids, Lindstrom [42] gave a combinatorial interp... more Introduction In studying representability of matroids, Lindstrom [42] gave a combinatorial interpretation to certain determinants in terms of disjoint paths in digraphs. In a previous paper [25], the authors applied this theorem to determinants of binomial coe#cients. Here we develop further applications. As in [25], the paths under consideration are lattice paths in the plane. Our applications may be divided into two classes: first are those in which a determinant is shown to count some objects of combinatorial interest, and second are those which give a combinatorial interpretation to some numbers which are of independent interest. In the first class are formulas for various types of plane partitions, and in the second class are combinatorial interpretations for Fibonomial coe#cients, Bernoulli numbers, and the less-known Salie and Faulhaber numbers (which arise in formulas for sums of powers, and are closely related to Genocchi and Bernoulli numbers). Other enumerative appl

Research paper thumbnail of Trees everywhere (invited lecture)

Research paper thumbnail of Combinatorial analysis of ramified patterns and computer imagery of trees

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 1989

Herein is presented a new procedural method for generating images of trees. Many other algorithms... more Herein is presented a new procedural method for generating images of trees. Many other algorithms have already been proposed in the last few years focusing on particle systems, fractals, graftals and L-systems or realistic botanical models. Usually the final visual aspect of the tree depends on the development process leading to this form. Our approach differs from all the previous ones. We begin by defining a certain "measure" of the form of a tree or a branching pattern. This is done by introducing the new concept of ramification matrix of a tree. Then we give an algorithm for generating a random tree having as ramification matrix a given arbitrary stochastic triangular matrix. The geometry of the tree is defined from the combinatorial parameters implied in the analysis of the forms of trees. We obtain a method with powerful control of the final form, simple enough to produce quick designs of trees without loosing in the variety and rendering of the images. We also intro...

Research paper thumbnail of An identity on Thron’s dual continued fractions

Annales des Sciences Mathematiques du Quebec

Nous construisons une famille de series formelles en deux variables dont tout element f(y, t) adm... more Nous construisons une famille de series formelles en deux variables dont tout element f(y, t) admet un developpement U en T-fraction, par rapport a la variable t, tel que la T-fraction duale U * est un developpement de f(t, y -1 ), toujours par rapport a t. Ce resultat est etabli grâce a une interpretation combinatoire du couple (U, U * ). Nous donnons l'exemple de la serie generatrice des polyominos parallelogrammes, qui fait intervenir des q-analogues de fonctions de Bessel.

Research paper thumbnail of Computing Iterated Derivatives Along Trajectories of Nonlinear Systems

Nonlinear Control Systems Design 1992, 1993

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses computing iterated derivatives along trajectories of non... more Publisher Summary This chapter discusses computing iterated derivatives along trajectories of nonlinear systems. It describes the theory of species. This theory combines the usual language of formal power series with the classical enumeration formulas. It allows to compute specific coefficients in the development of the solution of nonlinear differential equations. It develops a convenient language for the description of systems. The theory of species shows the internal structure of the classical algebric manipulations and synthetizes a long development into the description of a certain class of arborescences. This approach is particularly efficient for the design of computer algebra algorithms. There are new developments in this direction. Classical developments on implicit polynomial differential equations are also possible.

Research paper thumbnail of Trees everywhere

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1990

Page 1. TREES EVERYWHERE Xavier G6rard VIENNOT1 LaBRI2, Universit6 de Bordeaux I 33405 TALENCE Ce... more Page 1. TREES EVERYWHERE Xavier G6rard VIENNOT1 LaBRI2, Universit6 de Bordeaux I 33405 TALENCE Cedex, France ... Page 2. 19 It was started in Hydrogeology by Horton [28] and Strahler [70] in some work about the morphological structure of river networks. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Algèbres de Lie Libres et Monoïdes Libres

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1978

Bases des algebres de Lie libres et factorisations des monofdes libres.

Research paper thumbnail of A Survey of polyomino enumeration

Research paper thumbnail of Une th eorie combinatoire des polyn^omes orthogonaux g en eraux

Research paper thumbnail of Heaps of pieces I: Basic de?nitions and combinatorial lemmas

Research paper thumbnail of Moments des q-Polynômes de Laguerre et la Bijection de Foata-Zeilberger

Advances in Applied Mathematics, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Probl emes combinatoires pos es par la physique statistique

... Des résultats exacts en dimension d=2 (nombre d'animaux, largeur moyenne,:.) ont été démo... more ... Des résultats exacts en dimension d=2 (nombre d'animaux, largeur moyenne,:.) ont été démontrés par Derrida, Hakim, Nadal et Vannimenus [17] ,[ 21] , ainsi que par Dhar [12] ,[13] en dimension d=2 et 3 . Ce dernier montre l'équivalence avec le modèle de gaz des hexagones ...

Research paper thumbnail of Determinants, Paths, and Plane Partitions

Introduction In studying representability of matroids, Lindstrom [42] gave a combinatorial interp... more Introduction In studying representability of matroids, Lindstrom [42] gave a combinatorial interpretation to certain determinants in terms of disjoint paths in digraphs. In a previous paper [25], the authors applied this theorem to determinants of binomial coe#cients. Here we develop further applications. As in [25], the paths under consideration are lattice paths in the plane. Our applications may be divided into two classes: first are those in which a determinant is shown to count some objects of combinatorial interest, and second are those which give a combinatorial interpretation to some numbers which are of independent interest. In the first class are formulas for various types of plane partitions, and in the second class are combinatorial interpretations for Fibonomial coe#cients, Bernoulli numbers, and the less-known Salie and Faulhaber numbers (which arise in formulas for sums of powers, and are closely related to Genocchi and Bernoulli numbers). Other enumerative appl

Research paper thumbnail of Chains and antichain families, grids and Young Tableaux

Research paper thumbnail of A Combinatorial Interpretation of the Quotient-Difference Algorithm

Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, 2000

During the last thirty years, a growing interest for Pade approximants appeared in many theoretic... more During the last thirty years, a growing interest for Pade approximants appeared in many theoretical and applied fields, such as numerical analysis, theoretical physics, chemistry, electronics, … as shown in the books Baker [1], Baker, Graves-Morris [2], Brezinski [3], Gilewicz [11]. Pade approximants are strongly connected with continued fractions (see for example Henrici [16], Jones, Thron [17], Wall [25]) and orthogonal polynomials (see for example Brezinski [4, 5], Draux [7], Van Rossum [22], Wynn [26]). The so-called quotient-difference algorithm, or qd-algorithm, plays an important role in these theories. It was originated in Steifel [21] and studied by Rutishauser [19], Henrici [16,15]. (See also Brezinski [5], Gragg [12]).

Research paper thumbnail of Enumeration of RNA Secondary Structures by Complexity

Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Combinatorial tools for the analysis of ramified patterns

Journal of Statistical Physics, 1989

Tree-like patterns appear in many domains of physics and the quantitative description of their mo... more Tree-like patterns appear in many domains of physics and the quantitative description of their morphology raises an interesting problem. To analyze their topological structure, we introduce combinatorial concepts, the bifurcation and length ratios and the ramification matrix, which generalize ideas originating in hydrogeology. Two-dimensional diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) patterns are studied along these lines, and their statistical combinatorial properties are compared

Research paper thumbnail of The Product of Trees in the Loday–Ronco Algebra Through Catalan Alternative Tableaux

Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 2010

The aim of this note is to show how the introduction of certain tableaux, called Catalan alternat... more The aim of this note is to show how the introduction of certain tableaux, called Catalan alternative tableaux, provides a very simple and elegant description of the product in the Hopf algebra of binary trees defined by Loday and Ronco. Moreover, we use this description to introduce a new associative product on the space of binary trees.

Research paper thumbnail of Combinatorial tools for the analysis of ramified patterns

Journal of Statistical Physics, 1989

Tree-like patterns appear in many domains of physics and the quantitative description of their mo... more Tree-like patterns appear in many domains of physics and the quantitative description of their morphology raises an interesting problem. To analyze their topological structure, we introduce combinatorial concepts, the bifurcation and length ratios and the ramification matrix, which generalize ideas originating in hydrogeology. Two-dimensional diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) patterns are studied along these lines, and their statistical combinatorial properties are compared to those of random and growing binary trees and to experimental data for injection of water in clay.

Research paper thumbnail of Empilements de segments et q-énumération de polyominos convexes dirigés

Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Determinants, Paths, and Plane Partitions

Introduction In studying representability of matroids, Lindstrom [42] gave a combinatorial interp... more Introduction In studying representability of matroids, Lindstrom [42] gave a combinatorial interpretation to certain determinants in terms of disjoint paths in digraphs. In a previous paper [25], the authors applied this theorem to determinants of binomial coe#cients. Here we develop further applications. As in [25], the paths under consideration are lattice paths in the plane. Our applications may be divided into two classes: first are those in which a determinant is shown to count some objects of combinatorial interest, and second are those which give a combinatorial interpretation to some numbers which are of independent interest. In the first class are formulas for various types of plane partitions, and in the second class are combinatorial interpretations for Fibonomial coe#cients, Bernoulli numbers, and the less-known Salie and Faulhaber numbers (which arise in formulas for sums of powers, and are closely related to Genocchi and Bernoulli numbers). Other enumerative appl