Hole-one-descent conjecture for generalized monotone triangles

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Let An,jA_{n,j} denote the number of alternating-sign matrices of size nn whose unique 11 in the first row is in column jj, and let n≥1n\geq1 and i=1,…,n−1i=1,\ldots,n-1. Hole-one-descent conjecture. The identity

α(n+1;1,2,…,i−1,i+1,i,i+1,…,n)=−∑j=1n(j−i)An,j\alpha(n+1;1,2,\ldots,i-1,i+1,i,i+1,\ldots,n)=-\sum_{j=1}^{n}(j-i)A_{n,j}

should hold. The source proves the case i=1i=1 and obtains part of the general decomposition, but explicitly says that the remaining contribution from two structural classes is an open problem.

References

Primary source

Lukas Riegler, “Generalized Monotone Triangles: an extended Combinatorial Reciprocity Theorem”, arXiv:1207.4437 (2012).

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