Pfaffian evaluations for Motzkin, Delannoy, Schröder and Narayana sequences
Let be the Motzkin numbers, the central Delannoy numbers, the Schröder numbers, and the Narayana polynomials, with . Motzkin–Delannoy–Schröder–Narayana Pfaffian conjecture. For every integer ,
and
These are conjectural Pfaffian evaluations based on lattice-path sequences and computer experiments. Since , , and the stated relation expresses through , proving the Narayana identity would imply the Motzkin and Schröder identities; the conjecture remains open.
References
Primary source
Masao Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Tagawa and Jiang Zeng, “Pfaffian decomposition and a Pfaffian analogue of q-Catalan Hankel determinants”, arXiv:1011.5941 (2010).
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