Bijections of \(k\)-plane trees

Abstract

A \(k\)-plane tree is a tree drawn in the plane such that the vertices are labeled by integers in the set \(\{1,2,\ldots,k\}\), the children of all vertices are ordered, and if \((i,j)\) is an edge in the tree, where \(i\) and \(j\) are labels of adjacent vertices in the tree, then \(i+j\leq k+1\). In this paper, we construct bijections between these trees and the sets of \(k\)-noncrossing increasing trees, locally oriented \((k-1)\)-noncrossing trees, Dyck paths, and some restricted lattice paths.