A conjectured formula for the rational q,t-Catalan polynomial

Abstract: We conjecture a formula for the rational

q, t

-Catalan polynomial

m a t h c a l C_{r / s}

that is symmetric in

q

and

t

by definition. The conjecture posits that

m a t h c a l C_{r / s}

can be written in terms of symmetric monomial strings indexed by maximal Dyck paths. We show that for any finite

d^{*}

, giving a combinatorial proof of our conjecture on the infinite set of functions

m a t h c a l C_{r / s}^{d} : r e q u i v 1 m o d s,,,, d l e q d^{*}

is equivalent to a finite counting problem.

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