Sun's conjecture on reciprocal squared differences in a permutation

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Let nn be a positive integer and let πSn\pi\in\mathfrak{S}_n be a permutation of {1,,n}\{1,\ldots,n\}. Sun's squared-difference conjecture. If n>7n>7, there is a permutation π\pi such that

k=1n11π(k)2π(k+1)2=0.\sum_{k=1}^{n-1}\frac{1}{\pi(k)^2-\pi(k+1)^2}=0.

The source presents this as one of Sun's conjectures that it is not able to prove, concerning a rational function formed from consecutive squared permutation values.

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Primary source

Guo-Niu Han, “On the existence of permutations conditioned by certain rational functions”, arXiv:1910.02662 (2019).

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