In this paper, we revisit the enumeration of directed animals using gas models. We show that there exists a natural construction of random directed animals on any directed graph t...
We enumerate rooted triangulations of a sphere with multiple holes by the total number of edges and the length of each boundary component. The proof relies on a combinatorial iden...
We define a higher spin alternating sign matrix to be an integer-entry square matrix in which, for a nonnegative integer r, all complete row and column sums are r, and all partia...
Let G be a simple balanced bipartite graph on 2n vertices, δ = δ(G)/n, and ρ0 = δ+ √ 2δ−1 2 . If δ ≥ 1/2 then G has a ρ0n -regular spanning subgraph. The statement is...
The idea of graph compositions, which was introduced by A. Knopfmacher and M. E. Mays, generalizes both ordinary compositions of positive integers and partitions of finite sets. ...
Sylvester’s identity is a classical determinantal identity with a straightforward linear algebra proof. We present combinatorial proofs of several non-commutative extensions, an...
A hypermap is (hypervertex-) bipartite if its hypervertices can be 2-coloured in such a way that “neighbouring” hypervertices have different colours. It is bipartiteuniform i...
We determine the exact and asymptotic number of unlabeled outerplanar graphs. The exact number gn of unlabeled outerplanar graphs on n vertices can be computed in polynomial time,...