Pfaffian conjecture for the vertically symmetric alternating-sign-matrix sequence

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Let an=12n+1(3nn)=13n+1(3n+1n)a_n=\frac{1}{2n+1}\binom{3n}{n}=\frac{1}{3n+1}\binom{3n+1}{n}. Vertically symmetric alternating-sign-matrix Pfaffian conjecture. For every integer n≥1n\geq1,

Pf((j−i)ai+j−1)1≤i,j≤2n=12n∏k=1n(12k−6)!(4k−3)!(3k−1)!(8k−6)!(8k−3)!(3k−2)!.\mathop{\rm Pf}\left((j-i)a_{i+j-1}\right)_{1\leq i,j\leq2n}=\frac{1}{2^n}\prod_{k=1}^{n}\frac{(12k-6)!(4k-3)!(3k-1)!}{(8k-6)!(8k-3)!(3k-2)!}.

The sequence ana_n also occurs in determinant enumerations of vertically symmetric alternating sign matrices. The displayed Pfaffian identity is proposed on the basis of that connection and 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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