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Horizons in Combinatorics/16th Shanks Lecture Series
May 21-24, 2001
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Organizers
Paul Edelman, Mark Ellingham, Jonathan Farley, Mike Plummer, Jerry Spinrad

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Random walks and the Pell numbers
by
Lou Shapiro
Mathematics Department, Howard University

We start with a classic problem of walks staring at the origin taking north, east, and west steps with no east step followed by a west step and vice versa. This gives a class of nonintersecting random walks and we look at both the underlying group structure and some Fibonacci substructures.

Date received: May 10, 2001


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