Caracol flow-polytope volume conjecture for three initial parameters

Let Carn+1\textup{Car}_{n+1} be the Caracol graph on n+1n+1 vertices, and let FCarn+1(a,b,c,,c)\mathcal{F}_{\textup{Car}_{n+1}}(a,b,c,\ldots,c) denote its flow polytope with the indicated net flow vector. Caracol volume conjecture. For n2n\geq2 and positive integers aa, bb, and cc,

volFCarn+1(a,b,c,,c)=Cn2an2(a+(n1)b)(a+b+(n2)c)n3.\operatorname{vol}\mathcal{F}_{\textup{Car}_{n+1}}(a,b,c,\ldots,c)=C_{n-2}\cdot a^{n-2}(a+(n-1)b)(a+b+(n-2)c)^{n-3}.

The formula is verified in the source up to n=8n=8 and would imply the preceding theorem when b=cb=c.

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Carolina Benedetti, Rafael S. González D'León, Christopher R. H. Hanusa, Pamela E. Harris, Apoorva Khare, Alejandro H. Morales and Martha Yip, “A combinatorial model for computing volumes of flow polytopes”, arXiv:1801.07684 (2019).

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