A Fourfold Refined Enumeration of Alternating Sign Trapezoids

Abstract: Alternating sign trapezoids have recently been introduced as a generalisation of alternating sign triangles. Fischer established a threefold refined enumeration of alternating sign trapezoids and provided three statistics on column strict shifted plane partitions with the same joint distribution. In this paper, we are able to add a new pair of statistics to these results. More precisely, we consider the number of $-1$s on alternating sign trapezoids and introduce a corresponding statistic on column strict shifted plane partitions that has the same distribution. More generally, we show that the joint distributions of the two quadruples of statistics on alternating sign trapezoids and column strict shifted plane partitions, respectively, coincide. In addition, we provide a closed-form expression for the $2$-enumeration of alternating sign trapezoids.