Generalized Pfaffian product formulas for Motzkin triangle entries
Let and be positive integers. Define the Motzkin-triangle entries by
For a skew-symmetric matrix, let denote its Pfaffian. Generalized Motzkin Pfaffian conjecture. The Pfaffian
equals
if is an integer, and equals
if is odd and is an integer; it is zero in all other cases. Meanwhile,
equals
if is an integer, and equals
if is even and is an integer; it is zero in all other cases. The formulas generalize the preceding Pfaffian evaluation for the Motzkin numbers and would provide product evaluations for broad families of Pfaffians built from Motzkin-triangle entries. The source does not provide evidence resolving this proposed generalization.
References
Primary source
Masao Ishikawa and Christoph Koutschan, “Zeilberger's Holonomic Ansatz for Pfaffians”, arXiv:1201.5253 (2012).
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