The conjectural terminating elliptic hypergeometric sum for the AnA_n root system

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Let NN be a positive integer, let tt and t1,…,tn+3t_1,\dots,t_{n+3} be parameters, and suppose that

∏k=1ntk=q−N.\prod_{k=1}^n t_k=q^{-N}.

For an integer λ\lambda, write θ(a)λ=θ(a;p;q)λ\theta(a)_\lambda=\theta(a;p;q)_\lambda. The terminating AnA_n elliptic hypergeometric sum conjecture. The following identity should hold:

∑λk=0,…,Nlambda1+⋯+λn=N∏1≤i<j≤nθ(ttitj)λi+λj∏i=1n∏j=n+1n+3θ(ttitj)λi∏i,j=1nθ(titj−1)−λj∏i,j=1; i≠jnθ(titj−1)λi−λj∏j=1nθ(tn+1tj−1∏k=1n+3tk)−λj={θ(1)−Nθ(tn/2)−N∏n+1≤i<j≤n+3θ(t(n+2)/2titj)−N,n is even,θ(1)−N∏i=n+1n+3θ(t(n+1)/2ti)−Nθ(t(n+3)/2∏i=n+1n+3ti)−N,n is odd.\sum_{\substack{\lambda_k=0,\ldots,N\\lambda_1+\cdots+\lambda_n=N}} \frac{\prod_{1\leq i<j\leq n}\theta(tt_it_j)_{\lambda_i+\lambda_j}\prod_{i=1}^n\prod_{j=n+1}^{n+3}\theta(tt_it_j)_{\lambda_i}\prod_{i,j=1}^n\theta(t_it_j^{-1})_{-\lambda_j}} {\prod_{i,j=1;\ i\neq j}^n\theta(t_it_j^{-1})_{\lambda_i-\lambda_j}\prod_{j=1}^n\theta(t^{n+1}t_j^{-1}\prod_{k=1}^{n+3}t_k)_{-\lambda_j}} = \begin{cases} \displaystyle\frac{\theta(1)_{-N}}{\theta(t^{n/2})_{-N}\prod_{n+1\leq i<j\leq n+3}\theta(t^{(n+2)/2}t_it_j)_{-N}},&n\text{ is even},\\[6pt] \displaystyle\frac{\theta(1)_{-N}}{\prod_{i=n+1}^{n+3}\theta(t^{(n+1)/2}t_i)_{-N}\theta(t^{(n+3)/2}\prod_{i=n+1}^{n+3}t_i)_{-N}},&n\text{ is odd}. \end{cases}

The conjecture is presented as an elliptic extension of a previously known theorem and concerns sums of residues of derived AnA_n integrals. Its resolution status is not specified in the source.

References

Primary source

V. P. Spiridonov, “Theta hypergeometric integrals”, arXiv:math/0303205 (2003).

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