Galoisian structure of large steps walks in the quadrant

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Autores principales: Bonnet, Pierre, Hardouin, Charlotte
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author Bonnet, Pierre
Hardouin, Charlotte
author_facet Bonnet, Pierre
Hardouin, Charlotte
contents The enumeration of walks in the quarter plane confined in the first quadrant has attracted a lot of attention over the past fifteenth years. The generating functions associated to small steps models satisfy a functional equation in two catalytic variables. For such models, Bousquet-Mélou and Mishna defined a group called the group of the walk which turned out to be central in the classification of small steps models. In particular, its action on the catalytic variables yields a set of change of variables compatible with the structure of the functional equation. This particular set called the orbit has been generalized to models with arbitrary large steps by Bostan, Bousquet-Mélou and Melczer. However, the orbit had till now no underlying group. In this article, we endow the orbit with the action of a Galois group, which extends the group of the walk to models with large steps. Within this Galoisian framework, we generalized the notions of invariants and decoupling. This enable us to develop a general strategy to prove the algebraicity of models with small backward steps. Our constructions lead to the first proofs of algebraicity of weighted models with large steps, proving in particular a conjecture of Bostan, Bousquet-Mélou and Melczer, and allowing us to find new algebraic models with large steps.
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spellingShingle Galoisian structure of large steps walks in the quadrant
Bonnet, Pierre
Hardouin, Charlotte
Combinatorics
05A15, 11S20
The enumeration of walks in the quarter plane confined in the first quadrant has attracted a lot of attention over the past fifteenth years. The generating functions associated to small steps models satisfy a functional equation in two catalytic variables. For such models, Bousquet-Mélou and Mishna defined a group called the group of the walk which turned out to be central in the classification of small steps models. In particular, its action on the catalytic variables yields a set of change of variables compatible with the structure of the functional equation. This particular set called the orbit has been generalized to models with arbitrary large steps by Bostan, Bousquet-Mélou and Melczer. However, the orbit had till now no underlying group. In this article, we endow the orbit with the action of a Galois group, which extends the group of the walk to models with large steps. Within this Galoisian framework, we generalized the notions of invariants and decoupling. This enable us to develop a general strategy to prove the algebraicity of models with small backward steps. Our constructions lead to the first proofs of algebraicity of weighted models with large steps, proving in particular a conjecture of Bostan, Bousquet-Mélou and Melczer, and allowing us to find new algebraic models with large steps.
title Galoisian structure of large steps walks in the quadrant
topic Combinatorics
05A15, 11S20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03508