Enumeration of tilings of diamonds and hexagons with defects

Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Helfgott, Harald A ^a   Gessel, Ira M ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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