The Delannoy polynomial
collects Delannoy numbers along an antidiagonal of their array. Here counts lattice paths
from
to
with steps
,
,
and
(Wang et al. 2019).
The first polynomials are ,
,
, and
. They satisfy
Their coefficients are symmetric, and all their zeros are negative real numbers (Wang et al. 2019).
Bayer et al. (2026) relate products of these polynomials to face enumeration for independence complexes of planar ternary graphs.