Signed-cardinality homomesy conjecture for interval-closed sets of products of two chains

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Let [m]×[n][m]\times[n] be the product of two chains, and let an interval-closed set mean a subset that is interval-closed in this poset. For x[m]×[n]x\in[m]\times[n], define the signed cardinality by the parity of its rank, and for an interval-closed set II let sc(I)\mathrm{sc}(I) be the sum of these signs over II. A statistic is 00-mesic if its average on every rowmotion orbit is zero. Signed-cardinality homomesy conjecture. If m=2m=2 or m=3m=3, then the signed cardinality statistic is 00-mesic under rowmotion on interval-closed sets of [m]×[n][m]\times[n] whenever m+n1m+n-1 is even.

The conjecture extends homomesy results for ordinal sums of antichains and the known [2]×[n][2]\times[n] case; the source states that its m=2m=2 case is proved by the paper's Theorem 1. The m=3m=3 case remains unresolved here.

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Nadia Lafrenière, Joel Brewster Lewis, Erin McNicholas, Jessica Striker and Amanda Welch, “Interval-closed set rowmotion and homomesy on products of two chains”, arXiv:2505.04000 (2025).

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