Conjectured volume formula for parabolic-taxicab balls

Let mm and r0r\ge 0 be integers. In the parabolic-taxicab geometry, let Bpc((m,m),r)\mathscr{B}_{\mathrm{pc}}((m,m),r) denote the closed ball of center (m,m)(m,m) and radius rr, and let μ\mu denote its measure.

Parabolic-taxicab ball volume conjecture. The measure of this ball is

μ(Bpc((m,m),r))={112(10r3+9r2+26r+12),if r is even;112(10r3+9r2+26r+15),if r is odd.\mu\Big(\mathscr{B}_{\mathrm{pc}}\big((m,m),r\big)\Big) = \begin{cases} \frac{1}{12}\big(10 r^3+9r^2+26r+12\big), & \text{if $r$ is even;} \\[4mm] \frac{1}{12}\big(10 r^3+9r^2+26r+15\big), & \text{if $r$ is odd.} \end{cases}

The formula predicts the exact size of the metric balls arising from motion along the parabolic ladders together with unit horizontal and vertical jumps; the source presents it as a likely formula, and no resolution is supplied.

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Primary source

Cristian Cobeli and Alexandru Zaharescu, “On the trajectories of a particle in a translation invariant involutive field”, arXiv:2403.14894 (2024).

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