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

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 n1n\geq1,

Pf((ji)ai+j1)1i,j2n=12nk=1n(12k6)!(4k3)!(3k1)!(8k6)!(8k3)!(3k2)!.\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.

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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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