The quarter-turn-symmetric alternating sign matrix factorization conjecture

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Let Qn(x,y)Q_n(x,y) be the generating function for quarter-turn-symmetric nn by nn alternating sign matrices, and let HnH_n and AnA_n denote the half-turn-symmetric and unrestricted alternating sign matrix generating functions defined in the source. Quarter-turn factorization conjecture. For n1n\geq 1, it is conjectured that

Q4n(1,y)=yH2n(1,y,0)An(1,y)2,Q_{4n}(1,y)=yH_{2n}(1,y,0)A_n(1,y)^2, Q4n+1(1,y)=yH2n+1(1,y)An(1,y)2,Q_{4n+1}(1,y)=yH_{2n+1}(1,y)A_n(1,y)^2,

and

Q4n1(1,y)=yH2n1(1,y)An(1,y)2.Q_{4n-1}(1,y)=yH_{2n-1}(1,y)A_n(1,y)^2.

The formulas were verified in the source only for n=1,2,3,4n=1,2,3,4 and suggest bijections with Cartesian products involving other alternating sign matrix classes and cyclically symmetric plane partitions.

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Primary source

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

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