Bijection conjecture for hesitating walks and excursions in the octant and quadrant

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Let nn be a nonnegative integer. A hesitating excursion is a hesitating walk of length 2n2n in the quadrant that returns to its starting point, and a hesitating axis-walk is a hesitating walk of length 2n2n in the octant constrained to the axis. The thick diagonal is

{(n,n),nN}{(n+1,n),nN}.\{(n,n),n\in\mathbb{N}\}\bigcup\{(n+1,n),n\in\mathbb{N}\}.

Bijection conjecture. The following families are in bijection: hesitating excursions of length 2n2n in the quadrant; hesitating axis-walks of length 2n2n in the octant; and hesitating walks of length 2n2n in the octant ending on the thick diagonal.

The first two families are already known to be equinumerous with Baxter numbers, while the computational enumeration mentioned in the source suggests the bijective link with hesitating walks ending on the thick diagonal. The conjecture concerns the existence of bijections among all three families.

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Julien Courtiel, Éric Fusy, Mathias Lepoutre and Marni Mishna, “Bijections for Weyl Chamber walks ending on an axis, using arc diagrams and Schnyder woods”, arXiv:1611.04489 (2017).

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