Paper Boat zone partition conjecture

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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,b∈Fa,b\in\mathcal{F}, σ∈Ω\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 Z∈ZZ\in\mathcal{Z} and all λ,μ∈Z\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.

References

Primary source

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

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