Dyson Conjecture
The Dyson conjecture states that the Laurent polynomial
has constant term
The conjecture was first proved independently by Wilson (1962) and Gunson (1962). Good (1970) later found a short proof, by observing that the Laurent polynomials, and therefore their constant terms, satisfy the recursion relations
The case n = 3 of Dyson's conjecture follows from the Dixon identity.
Sills & Zeilberger (2006) and (Sills 2006) used a computer to find expressions for non-constant coefficients of Dyson's Laurent polynomial.
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