Triangular fully packed loop configurations (TFPLs) emerged as auxiliary objects in the study of fully packed loop configurations on a square (FPLs) corresponding to link patterns with a large number of nested arches. Wieland gyration, on the other hand, was invented to show the rotational invariance of the numbers $A_\pi$ of FPLs corresponding to a given link pattern $\pi$. The focus of this article is the definition and study of Wieland drift on TFPLs. We show that the repeated application of this operation eventually leads to a configuration that is left invariant. We also provide a characterization of such stable configurations. Finally we apply Wieland drift to the study of TFPL configurations, in particular giving new and simple proofs of several results.
@article{10_37236_4438,
author = {Sabine Beil and Ilse Fischer and Philippe Nadeau},
title = {Wieland drift for triangular fully packed loop configurations},
journal = {The electronic journal of combinatorics},
year = {2015},
volume = {22},
number = {1},
doi = {10.37236/4438},
zbl = {1307.05008},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.37236/4438/}
}
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