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 | | The structure of these Laurent polynomials was what led Mills, Robbins and Rumsey to define alternating sign matrices in the first place, and it turns out that a very perspicuous way of understanding the terms of these Laurent polynomials is to view them as domino tilings of Aztec diamonds in algebraic clothing. |
 | | I've conjectured that in this Laurent polynomial, every coefficient is equal to 1, and that moreover the exponents of the x-variables and z-variables are always +1, 0 or -1 while the exponents of the y-variables are always -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4. |
 | | For each monomial in one of the Laurent polynomials hex(i,j,k), the exponents of the x-variables naturally form a triangular array of integers (the entries of which conjecturally must be in the set {-1,0,+1}). |
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