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Enumerating Up-Side Self-Avoiding Walks on Integer Lattices

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1996

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Williams, Lauren K. 1996. Enumerating up-side self-avoiding walks on integer lattices. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 3(1): #R31.

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A self-avoiding walk (saw) is a path on a lattice that does not pass through the same point twice. Though mathematicians have studied saws for over fifty years, the number of n-step saws is unknown. This paper examines a special case of this problem, finding the number of n-step "up-side'' saws (ussaws), saws restricted to moving up and sideways. It presents formulas for the number of n-step ussaws on various lattices, found using generating functions with decomposition and recursive methods.

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