Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (Nov 2017)

Periodic balanced binary triangles

  • Jonathan Chappelon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.23638/DMTCS-19-3-13
Journal volume & issue
Vol. Vol. 19 no. 3, no. Combinatorics

Abstract

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A binary triangle of size $n$ is a triangle of zeroes and ones, with $n$ rows, built with the same local rule as the standard Pascal triangle modulo $2$. A binary triangle is said to be balanced if the absolute difference between the numbers of zeroes and ones that constitute this triangle is at most $1$. In this paper, the existence of balanced binary triangles of size $n$, for all positive integers $n$, is shown. This is achieved by considering periodic balanced binary triangles, that are balanced binary triangles where each row, column or diagonal is a periodic sequence.

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