The complement symmetry conjecture for Varchenko's path sums

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Let λ\lambda be a partition in an (n−k)×k(n-k)\times k rectangle, let λc\lambda^c be its complement, and let α\alpha be the automorphism of C(ℏ,a1,…,an)\mathbb{C}(\hbar,a_1,\ldots,a_n) defined by α(ai)=−an+1−i\alpha(a_i)=-a_{n+1-i} for 1≤i≤n1\leq i\leq n, with α(ℏ)=ℏ\alpha(\hbar)=\hbar. Complement symmetry conjecture.

V(λ)=α(V(λc)).\mathbb{V}(\lambda)=\alpha\bigl(\mathbb{V}(\lambda^c)\bigr).

The source later states that this fails at the level of multisets, so the conjecture is disproved even though there is a natural bijection between paths to λ\lambda and paths to λc\lambda^c.

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Matthew Crawford, Pavan Kartik and Reese Lance, “Integrals of stable envelopes for cotangent bundles to Grassmannians”, arXiv:2510.21573 (2026).

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