Meandric polygons

A. Panayotopoulos1, P. Vlamos2
1University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou Str, 18534 Piraeus, Greece
2Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Plateia Tsirigoti 7, 49100 Corfu, Greece,

Abstract

The notion of meandric polygons is introduced in this paper. A bijection exists between the set of meandric polygons and that of closed meanders. We use these polygons to enumerate the set of meanders which have a fixed number of arcs of the meandric curves lying above and below the horizontal line at a given point.