Self-avoiding walks of specified lengths on rectangular grid graphs




Major, László; Németh, László; Pahikkala, Anna; Szalay, László

PublisherBirkhauser

2024

 Aequationes Mathematicae

Aequationes Mathematicae

98

1

215

239

1420-8903

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-023-00977-8

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00010-023-00977-8

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/180426856



The investigation of self-avoiding walks on graphs has an extensive literature. We study the notion of wrong steps of self-avoiding walks on rectangular shape n×m grids of square cells (Manhattan graphs) and examine some general and special cases. We determine the number of self-avoiding walks with one and with two wrong steps in general. We also establish some properties, like unimodality and sum of the rows of the Pascal-like triangles corresponding to the walks. We also present particular recurrence relations on the number of self-avoiding walks on the n×2 grids with any specified number of wrong steps.


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