Generating series for Laplace transforms of Hochschild-arbor volume functions

Derive and prove the conjectural generating-series identity for the Laplace transforms of the volume functions of the polytopes Q_{t_n} associated with the Hochschild arbor family t_n, namely the identity displayed in the paper for Σ_{n≥1}L_{t_n}(E,V)s^n.

Background

The paper defines a volume function for each arbor polytope Q_t by slicing according to the coordinate-sum height and encodes it through a Laplace transform L_t. For the Hochschild arbor family t_n, computer calculations suggest a closed generating series for these Laplace transforms. The proposed identity is explicitly described among the conjectural formulas and is left unresolved.

References

For the Laplace transform of volume functions of the polytopes $Q_{t_n}$:

\sum_{n \geq 1} L_{t_n}(E,V) sn \stackrel{?}{=} V \left(\frac{s}{E V s - V s + 1} + \frac{E s}{E s - 1}\right).\n

On posets and polytopes attached to arbors  (2503.04247 - Chapoton, 6 Mar 2025) in Section 10, final subsection on conjectural formulas