{ "id": "2104.01731", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-04-05T00:50:12.000Z", "updated": "2021-04-05T00:50:12.000Z", "title": "Some Deep and Original Questions about the \"critical exponents\" of Generalized Ballot Sequences", "authors": [ "Shalosh B. Ekhad", "Doron Zeilberger" ], "comment": "9 pages; Accompanied by a Maple package and output files available from https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimhtml/capone.html", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math-ph", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "We numerically estimate the critical exponents of certain enumeration sequences that naturally generalize the famous Catalan and super-Catalan sequences, and raise deep and original questions about their exact values, and whether they are rational numbers.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2021-04-05T00:50:12.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "generalized ballot sequences", "original questions", "critical exponents", "enumeration sequences", "super-catalan sequences" ], "tags": [ "research tool" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 9, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }