(--1)-enumeration of plane partitions with complementation symmetry

DOI10.1016/S0196-8858(02)00525-0MaRDI QIDQ1398286zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors T. Eisenkölbl

Publication date 29 July 2003

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0011175

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45)

Abstract: We compute the weighted enumeration of plane partitions contained in a given box with complementation symmetry where adding one half of an orbit of cubes and removing the other half of the orbit changes the weight by -1 as proposed by Kuperberg. We use nonintersecting lattice path families to accomplish this for transpose-complementary, cyclically symmetric transpose-complementary and totally symmetric self-complementary plane partitions. For symmetric transpose-complementary and self-complementary plane partitions we get partial results. We also describe Kuperberg's proof for the case of cyclically symmetric self-complementary plane partitions.

Review text

A plane partition \(P\) is defined as a finite set of points \((i,j,k)\) with \(i,j,k> 0\) such that if \((i,j,k)\in P\) and \(1\leq i'\leq i\), \(1\leq j'\leq j\), \(1\leq k'\leq k\), then \((i',j',k')\in P\). These points are interpreted as midpoints of a cube. If \(i\leq a\), \(j\leq b\) and \(k\leq c\) for all cubes of the plane partition, then the plane partition is said to be contained in a box with side lengths \(a\), \(b\), \(c\). Such partitions have several kinds of symmetries and complementation properties. The present paper is devoted to weighted enumerations of classes of plane partitions with complementation symmetry. The author's results confirm a conjecture posed by \textit{G. Kuperberg} [Electron. J. Comb. 5, Research paper R46 (1998); printed version J. Comb. 5, 707-740 (1998; Zbl 0906.05055)]. It states that ``nice expressions for a \((-1)\)-enumeration of such plane partitions certainly exist.

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