Planar lattice walks are combinatorial objects which arise
in statistical
mechanics in both the modeling of polymers
and percolation theory.
Much work has been done to classify
the generating functions of walks
restricted to the first
quadrant quarter-plane as algebraic, D-finite, or non-D-finite.
We
consider walks restricted to two regions: an eighth-plane wedge and a
three-quarter-plane
region. We find combinatorial criteria to define families
of
walks with algebraic generating functions in those regions, as well as
an
isomorphism that maps nearly one fourth of the walks in
the eighth-plane to
walks in the quarter-plane. Further, we
find evidence of a family of walks
whose generating
functions are non-D-finite in any wedge smaller than a half-plane.