The F–M triangle transformation conjecture for crystallographic root systems

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Let WW be the Weyl group of a crystallographic root system Φ\Phi of rank nn, and let F(x,y)F(x,y) and M(x,y)M(x,y) denote respectively the FF-triangle for Φ\Phi and the MM-triangle for WW, where

M(x,y)=∑a≤bμ(a,b)xrk⁡(b)yrk⁡(a).M(x,y)=\sum_{a \leq b} \mu(a,b)x^{\operatorname{rk}(b)}y^{\operatorname{rk}(a)}.

F–M triangle transformation conjecture. The two generating functions are related by the invertible transformation

(1−y)nF(x+y1−y,y1−y)=M(−x,−yx).(1-y)^n F\left(\frac{x+y}{1-y},\frac{y}{1-y}\right)=M\left(-x,-\frac{y}{x}\right).

This conjecture proposes a uniform relation between the face-enumerating FF-triangle of the generalized associahedron and the interval Möbius-number MM-triangle of the associated noncrossing partition lattice. The supplied text gives no resolution status, so the conjecture is recorded as open.

References

Primary source

Frederic Chapoton, “Enumerative properties of generalized associahedra”, arXiv:math/0401237 (2004).

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