Down-degree homomesy conjecture for trapezoid posets

Let T(a,b)\mathscr T(a,b) be the trapezoid poset, let J(T(a,b))J(\mathscr T(a,b)) be its set of order ideals, and let ddeg\operatorname{ddeg} denote the down-degree statistic. A probability distribution μ\mu on J(T(a,b))J(\mathscr T(a,b)) is toggle on antichains-symmetric if, for every antichain AA of T(a,b)\mathscr T(a,b), the expectation of the antichain-toggleability statistic satisfies

E[μ;TA]=0.\mathbb E[\mu;\mathcal T_A]=0.

Down-degree homomesy conjecture. For every toggle on antichains-symmetric distribution μ\mu on J(T(a,b))J(\mathscr T(a,b)),

E[μ;ddeg]=aba+b.\mathbb E[\mu;\operatorname{ddeg}]=\frac{ab}{a+b}.

This weakens the corresponding statement for rectangles because not every toggle-symmetric distribution on trapezoid-poset ideals has the same expected down-degree. In particular, it predicts the stated constant for the distributions arising uniformly from rowmotion orbits, but the source gives no resolution of the conjecture.

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Quang Vu Dao, Julian Wellman, Calvin Yost-Wolff and Sylvester W. Zhang, “Rowmotion Orbits of Trapezoid Posets”, arXiv:2002.04810 (2020).

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