Culminating paths
Let a and b be two positive integers. A culminating path is a path of ℤ 2 that starts from (0,0), consists of steps (1,a) and (1,-b), stays above the x-axis and ends at the highest ordinate it ever reaches. These paths were first encountered in bioinformatics, in the analysis of similarit...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
2008-04-01
|
| Series: | Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science |
| Online Access: | http://www.dmtcs.org/dmtcs-ojs/index.php/dmtcs/article/view/683 |