Paper Boat zone partition conjecture

Let Φ\Phi be an affine root system with coweight lattice Λ\Lambda^\vee, dominant coweights (Λ)+(\Lambda^\vee)^+, and finite Weyl-group alcove set F\mathcal{F}. For a,bFa,b\in\mathcal{F}, σΩ\sigma\in\Omega, and dominant coweights λ,μ\lambda,\mu, let PB(a,λ,b,σ)PB(a,\lambda,b,\sigma) be the corresponding Paper Boat and let WfW_\mathrm{f} be the finite Weyl group.

Paper Boat zone conjecture. For every affine Weyl group there is a partition Z\mathcal{Z} of (Λ)+(\Lambda^\vee)^+ with at most 3n3^n parts such that, for every ZZZ\in\mathcal{Z} and all λ,μZ\lambda,\mu\in Z,

PB(a,λ,b,σ)=PB(a,μ,b,σ).|PB(a,\lambda,b,\sigma)|=|PB(a,\mu,b,\sigma)|.

Thus only finitely many Paper Boat sizes would need to be computed for fixed affine type, uniformly over the parameters a,b,σa,b,\sigma.

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Federico Castillo, Damian de la Fuente, Nicolas Libedinsky and David Plaza, “Paper BOAT”, arXiv:2504.04489 (2025).

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