A closed formula for the number of convex permutominoes

In this thesis, we consider the problem of characterizing and enumerating sets of polyominoes described in terms of some constraints, defined either by convexity or by pattern containment. We are interested in a well known subclass of convex polyominoes, the k-convex polyominoes for which the enumeration according to the semi-perimeter is known only for k=1,2. We obtain, from a recursive decomposition, the generating function of the class of k-convex parallelogram polyominoes...

Hexagonal polyominoes are polyominoes on the honeycomb lattice. We enumerate the symmetry classes of convex hexagonal polyominoes. Here convexity is to be understood as convexity along the three main column directions. We deduce the generating series of free (i.e. up to reflection and rotation) and of asymmetric convex hexagonal polyominoes, according to area and half-perimeter. We give explicit formulas or implicit functional equations for the generating series, which are co...

Column-convex polygons were first counted by area several decades ago, and the result was found to be a simple, rational, generating function. In this chapter we generalize that result. Let a p-column polyomino be a polyomino whose columns can have 1, 2,..., p connected components. Then column-convex polygons are equivalent to 1-convex polyominoes. The area generating function of even the simplest generalization, namely to 2-column polyominoes, is unlikely to be solvable. We ...

We give a new combinatorial proof for the number of convex polyominoes whose minimum enclosing rectangle has given dimensions. We also count the subclass of these polyominoes that contain the lower left corner of the enclosing rectangle (directed polyominoes). We indicate how to sample random polyominoes in these classes. As a side result, we calculate the first and second moments of the number of common points of two monotone lattice paths between two given points.

In this paper, we introduce and study {\it Carlitz polyominoes}. In particular, we show that, as $n$ grows to infinity, asymptotically the number of \begin{enumerate} \item column-convex Carlitz polyominoes with perimeter $2n$ is \beq \frac{9\sqrt{2}(14+3\sqrt{3})}{2704\sqrt{\pi n^3}}4^n. \feq \item convex Carlitz polyominoes with perimeter $2n$ is \beq \frac{n+1}{10}\left(\frac{3+\sqrt{5}}{2}\right)^{n-2}. \feq \end{enumerate}

As a generalization of polyominoes we consider edge-to-edge connected nonoverlapping unions of regular $k$-gons. For $n\le 4$ we determine formulas for the number $a_k(n)$ of generalized polyominoes consisting of $n$ regular $k$-gons. Additionally we give a table of the numbers $a_k(n)$ for small $k$ and $n$ obtained by computer enumeration. We finish with some open problems for $k$-polyominoes.

For L-convex polyominoes we give the asymptotics of the generating function coefficients, obtained by analysis of the coefficients derived from the functional equation given by Castiglione et al. \cite{CFMRR7}. For 201-avoiding ascent sequences, we conjecture the solution, obtained from the first 23 coefficients of the generating function. The solution is D-finite, indeed algebraic. The conjectured solution then correctly generates all subsequent coefficients. We also obtain ...

A permutation polytope is the convex hull of a group of permutation matrices. In this paper we investigate the combinatorics of permutation polytopes and their faces. As applications we completely classify permutation polytopes in dimensions 2,3,4, and the corresponding permutation groups up to a suitable notion of equivalence. We also provide a list of combinatorial types of possibly occuring faces of permutation polytopes up to dimension four.

Back in the early days of polyomino enumeration, a model called column-convex polyominoes was introduced and its area generating function was found. That generating function is rational: the numerator has degree four and the denominator has degree three. Let a column-duplex polyomino be a polyomino whose columns can have either one or two connected components. A simplex-duplex polyomino is a column-duplex polyomino in which there is no occurrence of two adjacent columns each ...

In this paper, we enumerate parallelogram polycubes according to several parameters. After establishing a relation between Multiple Zeta Function and the Dirichlet generating function of parallelogram polyominoes, we generalize it to the case of parallelogram polycubes. We also give an explicit formula and an ordinary generating function of parallelogram polycubes according to the width, length and depth, by characterizing its projections. Then, these results are generalized ...