Morales–Mészáros conjecture for type C Chan–Robbins–Yuen polytopes

Let Kn+1CK^{C}_{n+1} be the complete signed graph with n+1n+1 vertices, containing all edges (i,j,±)(i,j,\pm) for 1i<jn+11\leq i<j\leq n+1 and (i,i,+)(i,i,+) for 1in1\leq i\leq n, and let FKn+1C(2,0,,0)\mathcal{F}_{K_{n+1}^{C}}(2,0,\ldots,0) be its flow polytope. Write Cat(k)=1k+1(2kk)\operatorname{Cat}(k)=\frac{1}{k+1}\binom{2k}{k} for the kkth Catalan number. Morales–Mészáros's type C volume conjecture. The normalized volume of CRYCn+1=FKn+1C(2,0,,0)CRYC_{n+1}=\mathcal{F}_{K_{n+1}^{C}}(2,0,\ldots,0) is

vol(CRYCn+1)=2n(n1)k=0n1Cat(k).\operatorname{vol}(CRYC_{n+1})=2^{n(n-1)}\prod_{k=0}^{n-1}\operatorname{Cat}(k).

This is a type C analogue of the Chan–Robbins–Yuen volume formula, predicting a power of 22 times a product of consecutive Catalan numbers. The source presents it as Conjecture 7.8 of Morales and Mészáros; no resolution is supplied here.

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Sylvie Corteel, Jang Soo Kim and Karola Mészáros, “Volumes of generalized Chan-Robbins-Yuen polytopes”, arXiv:1704.02701 (2017).

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