The little Schröder polynomial analogue of the q-Catalan identity

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Let Rn,k(q,t)R_{n,k}(q,t) be the (q,t)(q,t)-Schröder polynomial obtained by weighting little Schröder paths with the statistics defined above, and let [m]q[m]_q and [m]!q[m]!_q denote the qq-integer and qq-factorial. For 0kn10\leq k\leq n-1, little Schröder identity.

q(n2)(k2)Rn,k(q,q1)=[2nk]!q[n]q[n+1]q[nk1]!q[nk]!q[k]!q.q^{{n\choose 2}-{k\choose 2}}R_{n,k}(q,q^{-1})=\frac{[2n-k]!_{q}}{[n]_q[n+1]_q[n-k-1]!_{q}[n-k]!_{q}[k]!_q}.

This conjecture is the proposed analogue for little Schröder numbers of the corresponding identity for the (q,t)(q,t)-large Schröder polynomials; it gives a closed qq-factorial expression for the specialization t=q1t=q^{-1}. Its resolution is not specified in the supplied text.

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Primary source

E. Gorsky, “q,t-Catalan numbers and knot homology”, arXiv:1003.0916 (2011).

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