Decay of the isoterm-class ratio for binary tropical matrix identities

Fix r(0,1)r\in(0,1). For binary words in W(r,(1r))W(\ell r,\ell(1-r)), let e(,r)e(\ell,r) be the ratio of the number of UT2(T)\mathcal{UT}_2(\mathbb{T}) isoterms to the number of UT2(T)\mathcal{UT}_2(\mathbb{T}) equivalence classes. Isoterm-class ratio conjecture. The function e(,r)e(\ell,r) is monotone non-increasing in \ell, and

e(,r)0as .e(\ell,r)\to 0\quad\text{as }\ell\to\infty.

This conjecture expresses the experimental observation that, at a fixed letter ratio, isoterm classes become asymptotically negligible among equivalence classes of long words.

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Marianne Johnson and Ngoc Mai Tran, “Geometry and algorithms for upper triangular tropical matrix identities”, arXiv:1806.01835 (2018).

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