Closed-boundary rotor-model groundstate sum conjecture

For the rotor model with closed boundary conditions, let ψ0\psi_0 be its groundstate wavefunction and let S(N)S(N) denote the sum of its elements. For odd size N=2m1N=2m-1, normalize the smallest element to AV(2m1;3)A_{\rm V}(2m-1;3). For even size N=2mN=2m, normalize the wavefunction to the smallest integer such that all elements are integers. Closed-boundary rotor-model conjecture. For odd sizes, all elements are integers and

S(2m1)=3(m1)2N8(2m).S(2m-1)=3^{(m-1)^2}N_8(2m).

For even sizes,

S(2m)=32θmAV(2m+1),S(2m)=3^{2\theta_m}A_{\rm V}(2m+1),

where

θm=(m1)(m+2)3,\theta_m=\left\lfloor\frac{(m-1)(m+2)}{3}\right\rfloor,

and the listed values are 0,1,3,6,90,1,3,6,9 for m=1,,5m=1,\ldots,5. This conjecture concerns integer groundstate components and their combinatorial sums; it was checked up to N=10N=10, but no proof is supplied.

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M. T. Batchelor, J. de Gier and B. Nienhuis, “The Rotor Model and Combinatorics”, arXiv:math-ph/0204002 (2002).

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