Mills–Robbins–Rumsey's monotone-triangle correspondence conjecture

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Let \TSPPnk\TSPP{n}^{k} be the subset of triangular shifted plane partitions whose entries in the first n−1−kn-1-k columns attain their maximal values nn. Let \MTnk\MT{n}^{k} be the set of monotone triangles whose entries in the first n−kn-k columns attain their minimum values j−i+1j-i+1. Mills–Robbins–Rumsey's monotone-triangle correspondence conjecture. For n≥2n\geq2 and k=0,1,…,n−1k=0,1,\dots,n-1,

∣\TSPPnk∣=∣\MTnk∣.\lvert\TSPP{n}^{k}\rvert=\lvert\MT{n}^{k}\rvert.

This proposes an equality between restricted TSSCPPs and restricted monotone triangles, extending the known correspondence between alternating sign matrices and monotone triangles.

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Masao Ishikawa, “On refined enumerations of totally symmetric self-complementary plane partitions I”, arXiv:math/0602068 (2006).

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