Abstract
Gessel and Zeilberger generalized the reflection principle to handle walks confined to Weyl chambers, under some restrictions on the allowable steps. For some models that are invariant under the Weyl group action, they express the counting function for the walks with fixed starting point and ending point as a constant term in the Taylor series expansion of a rational function. Here we focus on the simplest case, the Weyl group A1d, which corresponds to walks in the first orthant Nd taking steps from a subset of {±1,0}d that is invariant under reflection across any axis. The principle novelty here is the incorporation of weights on the steps and the main result is a very general theorem giving asymptotic enumeration formulas for walks that end anywhere in the orthant. The formulas are determined by singularity analysis of multivariable rational functions, an approach that has already been successfully applied in numerous related cases.
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