A continuous analogue of lattice path enumeration: Part II

Tanay Wakhare1, Christophe Vignat2
1University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
2Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA and L.S.S., Université Paris Sud, France

Abstract

Following the work of Cano and Díaz, we study continuous binomial coefficients and Catalan numbers. We explore their analytic properties, including integral identities and generalizations of discrete convolutions. We also conduct an in-depth analysis of a continuous analogue of the binomial distribution, including a stochastic representation as a Goldstein-Kac process.