Krattenthaler's 1/3-phenomenon conjecture for rhombus tilings

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Let aa, bb, cc, xx and yy be arbitrary integers. Consider a hexagon with side lengths 2n+a2n+a, 2n+b2n+b, 2n+c2n+c, 2n+a2n+a, 2n+b2n+b, and 2n+c2n+c, and a horizontal rhombus whose bottom-most vertex is (2n+x,2n+y)(2n+x,2n+y) in oblique angled coordinates. Krattenthaler's 1/3-phenomenon conjecture. For some n0n_0 depending on aa, bb, cc, xx and yy, the probability that a randomly chosen rhombus tiling of this hexagon contains the specified rhombus is

13+fa,b,c,x,y(n)(2nn)3(6n+23n+1),\frac{1}{3}+f_{a,b,c,x,y}(n)\frac{\binom{2n}{n}^3}{\binom{6n+2}{3n+1}},

for n>n0n>n_0, where fa,b,c,x,y(n)f_{a,b,c,x,y}(n) is a rational function in nn. This conjecture generalizes Propp's observation about the near-central rhombus in a hexagon with all side lengths equal.

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Christian Krattenthaler, “A (conjectural) 1/3-phenomenon for the number of rhombus tilings of a hexagon which contain a fixed rhombus”, arXiv:math/0101009 (2001).

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