A $q$-queens problem V. some of our favorite pieces: queens, bishops, rooks, and nightriders

Parts~I--IV showed that the number of ways to place $q$ nonattacking queens or similar chess pieces on an $n\times n$ chessboard is a quasipolynomial function of $n$ whose coefficients are essentially polynomials in $q$. For partial queens, which have a subset of the queen's moves, we proved co...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society 2020, 57(6), , pp.1407-1433
Hauptverfasser: Seth Chaiken(The University at Albany, Christopher R. H. Hanusa(Queens College, Thomas Zaslavsky(Binghamton University
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Zusammenfassung:Parts~I--IV showed that the number of ways to place $q$ nonattacking queens or similar chess pieces on an $n\times n$ chessboard is a quasipolynomial function of $n$ whose coefficients are essentially polynomials in $q$. For partial queens, which have a subset of the queen's moves, we proved complete formulas for these counting quasipolynomials for small numbers of pieces and other formulas for high-order coefficients of the general counting quasipolynomials. We found some upper and lower bounds for the periods of those quasipolynomials by calculating explicit denominators of vertices of the inside-out polytope. Here we discover more about the counting quasipolynomials for partial queens, both familiar and strange, and the nightrider and its subpieces, and we compare our results to the empirical formulas found by \Kot. We prove some of \Kot's formulas and conjectures about the quasipolynomials and their high-order coefficients, and in some instances go beyond them. KCI Citation Count: 2
ISSN:0304-9914
2234-3008
DOI:10.4134/JKMS.j190682