The height of watermelons with wall

Abstract

We derive asymptotics for the moments as well as the weak limit of the height distribution of watermelons with p branches with wall. This generalises a famous result of de Bruijn, Knuth and Rice [4] on the average height of planted plane trees, and results by Fulmek [13] and Katori et al. [19] on the expected value, respectively higher moments, of the height distribution of watermelons with two branches.The asymptotics for the moments depend on the analytic behaviour of certain multidimensional Dirichlet series. In order to obtain this information we prove a reciprocity relation satisfied by the derivatives of one of Jacobi's theta functions, which generalises the well known reciprocity law for Jacobi's theta functions.

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