The plus-symmetric alternating sign matrix factorization conjecture

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Let Pn(x)P_n(x) be the generating function for alternating sign matrices invariant under flips in the vertical and horizontal axes, with the weight defined in the source. Such matrices have odd size. Let Tn(x,0)T_n(x,0) and Tn(x,1)T_n(x,1) be the triangular-array generating functions defined in the source. Plus-symmetric factorization conjecture. For n≥1n\geq1, it is conjectured that

P4n+1(x)=Tn(x,1)Tn(x,0),P_{4n+1}(x)=T_n(x,1)T_n(x,0),

and

P4n−1(x)=Tn−1(x,1)Tn(x,0).P_{4n-1}(x)=T_{n-1}(x,1)T_n(x,0).

The source states that these formulas have been verified only for small nn, so their general validity remains open.

References

Primary source

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

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