• Title of article

    Proof of Blumʹs conjecture on hexagonal dungeons

  • Author/Authors

    Ciucu، نويسنده , , Mihai and Lai، نويسنده , , Tri، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2014
  • Pages
    33
  • From page
    273
  • To page
    305
  • Abstract
    Matt Blum conjectured that the number of tilings of the hexagonal dungeon of sides a, 2a, b, a, 2a, b (where b ⩾ 2 a ) is 13 2 a 2 14 ⌊ a 2 2 ⌋ (Propp, 1999 [4]). In this paper we present a proof for this conjecture using Kuoʹs Graphical Condensation Theorem (Kuo, 2004 [2]).
  • Keywords
    Dual graph , Aztec dungeons , Hexagonal dungeons , Graphical condensation , tilings , Perfect matchings
  • Journal title
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Serial Year
    2014
  • Journal title
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Record number

    1532023