Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B63h (2010), 8 pp.

Jean-Christophe Aval and Xavier Viennot

The Product of Trees in the Loday-Ronco Algebra through Catalan Alternative Tableaux

Abstract. The aim of this note is to show how the introduction of certain tableaux, called Catalan alternative tableaux, provides a very simple and elegant description of the product in the Hopf algebra of binary trees defined by Loday and Ronco. Moreover, we use this description to introduce a new associative product on the space of binary trees.


Received: January 14, 2010. Accepted: June 14, 2010.

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