By Doron Zeilberger
To appear in Adv. Appl. Math. [special issue in memory of
David Robbins, guest-edited by David Bressoud]
First Written: April 25, 2004.
This version: July 19 2004. (thanks to Dave Bressoud for
numerous corrections and improvements).
This is the transcript of my talk given, on June 30, 2003, at
Dave Robbins's 60th Birthday Conference, wonderfully organized
by Lynne Butler and Clara Chan. Sadly Dave Robbins died about
two months later. This article is intended for a Special Issue
of Adv. Appl. Math. in memory of Dave Robbins, guest-edited by
Dave Bressoud and Bill Doran.
IMPORTANT: This article is accompanied by two short Maple
progrmams.
(Plain ) .tex version (17 pages)
read MRR:
The main procedure is MRRp, that outputs, all the exponent
matrices in the Robbins-Rumsey expansion of the lambda-determinant.
Here are the outputs of
MRRp(n) for
n=3,
n=4, and
n=5.
read dr:
then type:
GuessASM(n,k,4);
and you will get, after a few seconds, the following
output.
Here are the
soliciation letter,
and
checkers' reports.
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