Divisibility characterization for centred Catalan sets

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Let SS be a centred Catalan set, let ii be an integer, and define the rising factorial by

(x)k:=x(x+1)⋯(x+k−1).(x)_k:=x(x+1)\cdots(x+k-1).

Divisibility conjecture. One has

{−i,…,i}⊆S⟺∏k=0⌊i−12⌋(l+1+3k)i−2k divides wl(S).\{-i,\ldots,i\}\subseteq S\quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad \prod_{k=0}^{\left\lfloor\frac{i-1}{2}\right\rfloor}(l+1+3k)_{i-2k}\textnormal{ divides }w_l(S).

This conjecturally relates the central interval contained in a centred Catalan set to explicit factors of its weight function. The supplied text gives no resolution or additional hypotheses on ii.

References

Primary source

Florian Aigner, “Refined enumerations of alternating sign triangles”, arXiv:1804.10370 (2019).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1602.04347.

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