The half-turn-symmetric alternating sign matrix factorization conjecture

About 26 years old · traced to

Let Hn(x,y)H_n(x,y) be the weight-generating function for half-turn-invariant nn by nn alternating sign matrices, and let Zn(x,y,0)Z_n(x,y,0) and Zn−1(x,y,1)Z_{n-1}(x,y,1) be the corresponding plane-partition generating functions defined in the source. Half-turn factorization conjecture. It is conjectured that

H2n(x,y)=Zn(x,y,0)Zn−1(x,y,1).H_{2n}(x,y)=Z_n(x,y,0)Z_{n-1}(x,y,1).

The proposed factorization suggests a bijection between half-turn-symmetric 2n2n by 2n2n alternating sign matrices and the Cartesian product of nn by nn alternating sign matrices with cyclically symmetric plane partitions in the box Xn{\cal X}_n. The formula is described as observed, and the source gives no proof or resolution.

References

Primary source

David P. Robbins, “Symmetry Classes of Alternating Sign Matrices”, arXiv:math/0008045 (2000).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.