Krattenthaler's 1/3-phenomenon conjecture for rhombus tilings
Let , , , and be arbitrary integers. Consider a hexagon with side lengths , , , , , and , and a horizontal rhombus whose bottom-most vertex is in oblique angled coordinates. Krattenthaler's 1/3-phenomenon conjecture. For some depending on , , , and , the probability that a randomly chosen rhombus tiling of this hexagon contains the specified rhombus is
for , where is a rational function in . This conjecture generalizes Propp's observation about the near-central rhombus in a hexagon with all side lengths equal.
References
Primary source
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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