Catalan product conjecture for Young tableau faces of the Birkhoff polytope

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Let n2n\ge 2, and let FnF_n be the n×nn\times n matrix whose (i,j)(i,j) entry is 11 when ji+1j\le i+1 and 00 otherwise. The matrix FnF_n is a union of permutation matrices corresponding to a face of the Birkhoff polytope BnB_n of dimension (n2)\binom{n}{2} with 2n12^{n-1} vertices. Catalan product conjecture. The relative volume of FnF_n is

i=0n21i+1(2ii)\prod_{i=0}^{n-2} \frac{1}{i+1}\binom{2i}{i}

of the first n1n-1 Catalan numbers. The triangulation computations suggest this simple rule for the relative volumes of these faces, but no proof is supplied.

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Clara S. Chan and David P. Robbins, “On the volume of the polytope of doubly stochastic matrices”, arXiv:math/9806076 (1998).

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