aCenter for Combinatorics, LPMC-TJKLC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, PR China;bDepartment of Mathematics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, PR China
Abstract:
Based on a weighted version of the bijection between Dyck paths and 2-Motzkin paths, we find combinatorial interpretations of two identities related to the Narayana polynomials and the Catalan numbers. These interpretations answer two questions posed recently by Coker.