OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
This class of animals is in bijection with a simple class of heaps of dimers. It generalizes directed animals.
REFERENCES
M. Bousquet-Mélou and A. Rechnitzer, Lattice animals and heaps of dimers, Discrete Math. 258 (2002), no. 1-3, 235-274.
LINKS
M. Bousquet-Mélou and A. Rechnitzer, Lattice animals and heaps of dimers
FORMULA
The generating function is known in closed form. Closed, but big. It is proved to be non-D-finite.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, Feb 08 2001
STATUS
approved