Caracol graph Ehrhart polynomial product conjecture

Let Carn+1\textup{Car}_{n+1} be the Caracol graph on n+1n+1 vertices, and let ECarn+1(x)E_{\textup{Car}_{n+1}}(x) denote the Ehrhart polynomial associated with its flow polytope. Caracol Ehrhart product conjecture. For the Caracol graph Carn+1\textup{Car}_{n+1} we have

ECarn+1(x)=1xn+n3(xn+2n5n1)(x+n3n2).E_{\textup{Car}_{n+1}}(x)=\frac{1}{xn+n-3}\binom{xn+2n-5}{n-1}\binom{x+n-3}{n-2}.

This is presented as a conjectured product formula; the source gives no resolution of it.

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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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