Batchelor–de Gier–Nienhuis squared-component-sum conjecture

Let Ψ(2n)|\Psi^{(2n)}\rangle be the ground-state vector for the twisted XXZ chain with 2n2n sites, let W(2n)W^{(2n)} index its components, and let AnA_n be the number of alternating-sign n×nn\times n matrices. Batchelor–de Gier–Nienhuis squared-component-sum conjecture. The sum of the squared components is

AW(2n)[ΨA(2n)]2=An2.\sum_{A\in W^{(2n)}}[\Psi_A^{(2n)}]^2=A_n^2.

This was proposed as an analogue of a periodic-chain conjecture; the source gives no resolution.

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A. V. Razumov and Yu. G. Stroganov, “Spin chains and combinatorics: twisted boundary conditions”, arXiv:cond-mat/0102247 (2001).

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