In this note we consider the enumeration of unrestricted and restricted minimal lattice paths from (0, 0) to (m, n), with the following (μ + 2) moves, μ being a positive integer. Let the line segment between two lattice points on which no other lattice point lies be called a step. A lattice path at any stage can have either (1) a vertical step denoted by S0, or (2) a diagonal step parallel to the line x = ty (t = 1,…, μ), denoted by St, or (3) a horizontal step, denoted by Sμ+1.
In an earlier paper [8], one of the authors has established some Vandermonde type convolution identities involving multinomial coefficients with several summations which evidently are regeneralizations of identities in [1] with one summation. In this paper similar identities are derived for coefficients (defined below) of a general type, in the line of the results in [2] and [3], Furthermore, in a series of papers [4], [5], [6], Gould has obtained results on inversion of series and on classical polynomials by an extensive use of these identities with one summation.
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