Symmetric-difference formula conjecture for the EMD numerator
Symmetric-difference formula conjecture for the EMD numerator
For positive integers , let be the numerator polynomial in
and define
where is the power set of . Symmetric-difference formula conjecture. For all positive integers , we have
The identity was subsequently proved in the cited Ding preprint, although the authors note that a bijective proof remains especially desirable.
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Primary source
Rebecca Bourn and William Q. Erickson, “Palindromicity of the numerator of a statistical generating function”, arXiv:2307.02652 (2025).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2103.15161.
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