Max-minus-min homomesy conjecture for interval-closed sets of products of two chains

Let P=[m]×[n]P=[m]\times[n] be the product of two chains, and let IC(P)\mathcal{IC}(P) denote its interval-closed sets. Under rowmotion on IC(P)\mathcal{IC}(P), consider the statistic that assigns to each interval-closed set the number of its maximal elements minus the number of its minimal elements. A statistic is 00-mesic if its average on every rowmotion orbit is zero. Max-minus-min homomesy conjecture. The number of maximal elements minus the number of minimal elements is 00-mesic under rowmotion on IC(P)\mathcal{IC}(P), for P=[m]×[n]P=[m]\times[n].

This conjecture was posed in the cited earlier work; the source notes that the case m=2m=2 was already proved there, while the general case remains open.

References

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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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