Conjecture on the six smallest inversion numbers

For a fixed positive integer bb, let inv(a,b)\operatorname{inv}(a,b) denote the inversion number and let In(b)I_n(b) be its nnth smallest value, where 1n61\leq n\leq6. Six-smallest-values conjecture. For 1n61\leq n\leq6, one has

In(b)(n1)(b+1)(b+1n)4n,I_n(b)\geq\frac{(n-1)(b+1)(b+1-n)}{4n},

with equality

inv(n,b)=(n1)(b+1)(b+1n)4n\operatorname{inv}(n,b)=\frac{(n-1)(b+1)(b+1-n)}{4n}

when b1(modn)b\equiv-1\pmod n. This extends the proved bounds for the second smallest and second largest values to a conjectural description of the six smallest inversion numbers; the source does not indicate that the full statement has been resolved.

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Yiwang Chen, Nicholas Dunn, Campbell Hewett and Shashwat Silas, “On the Inversion Polynomial for Dedekind Sums”, arXiv:1411.4092 (2014).

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