Using Flajolet’s theory of combinatorial species, the study of the continued fraction expansion of the generating function for general combinatorial numbers naturally leads to the examination of other combinatorial numbers that have algebraic connections with Motzkin numbers. Based on the study of Motzkin and Catalan lattice paths, as well as the combinatorial models for Schröder numbers and Delannoy numbers, a transformation relationship between two different types of Catalan lattice paths is discovered. This leads to the idea of establishing appropriate lattice path transformations for other combinatorial numbers. By utilizing the equivalence theorem between the generating functions of certain labeled lattice paths on a plane and the Stieltjes-Jacobi type continued fractions, the continued fraction expressions for large Schröder paths, little Schröder paths are derived, and some algebraic conclusions related to Delannoy paths are obtained.
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