Mihai Ciucu and Christian Krattenthaler

A nonautomatic (!) application of Gosper's algorithm evaluates a determinant from tiling enumeration

(13 pages)

Abstract. We evaluate the determinant \det_{1\leq i,j\leq n}(\binom{x+y+j}{x-i+2j}-\binom{x+y+j}{x+i+2j}), which gives the number of lozenge tilings of a hexagon with cut off corners. A particularly interesting feature of this evaluation is that it requires the proof of a certain hypergeometric identity which we accomplish by using Gosper's algorithm in a nonautomatic fashion.


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