Down-degree homomesy conjecture for trapezoid posets

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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.

References

Primary source

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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