paper

Bi-banded Paths, a Bijection and the Narayana Numbers

arXiv:1005.1521

Abstract

We find a bijection between bi-banded paths and peak-counting paths, applying to two classes of lattice paths including Dyck paths. Thus we find a new interpretation of Narayana numbers as coefficients of weight polynomials enumerating bi-banded Dyck paths, which class of paths has arisen naturally in previous literature in a solution of the stationary state of the `TASEP' stochastic process.

10 pages, 5 figures