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Stéphane OUVRY, CNRS-Université Paris Sud et Université Paris-Saclay

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 15:30to16:30
Room 4336, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, CA

Title: The algebraic area of closed lattice random walks.

Abstract: We propose a formula for the enumeration of closed lattice random walks of length n enclosing a given algebraic area. The information is contained in the Kreft coefficients which encode, in the commensurate case, the Hofstadter secular equation for a quantum particle hopping on a lattice coupled to a perpendicular magnetic field. The algebraic area enumeration is possible because it is split in $2^{n/2-1}$ pieces, each tractable in terms of explicit combinatorial expressions.

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