Recurrence conjecture for the first two diagonal entries of the volume triangle

For n3n\ge 3, let ana_n be the first entry in the diagonal of the volume triangle, and for n4n\ge 4 let bnb_n be its second entry. Let VnV_n be the relative volume of PnP_n.

Recurrence conjecture for ana_n and bnb_n. The first diagonal entry satisfies

an=3Vn(n2).a_n=\frac{3V_n}{\binom{n}{2}}.

For n4n\ge 4, the second entries satisfy

(n1)(bn+1an+1bnan)=(n+2)(bn+2an+2bn+1an+1).(n-1)\left(\frac{b_{n+1}}{a_{n+1}}-\frac{b_n}{a_n}\right)=(n+2)\left(\frac{b_{n+2}}{a_{n+2}}-\frac{b_{n+1}}{a_{n+1}}\right).

The conjecture is motivated by numerical diagonal data for n=3,,10n=3,\ldots,10 and proposes formulas relating the diagonal entries to the relative volume and to one another. No proof or resolution is supplied in the paper.

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Primary source

Clara S. Chan, David P. Robbins and David S. Yuen, “On the volume of a certain polytope”, arXiv:math/9810154 (1998).

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