Rimányi's positivity conjecture for Thom polynomials

Let Tpkmn\mathrm{Tp}_k^{m-n} be the Thom polynomial for the relevant Morin singularity, expressed in the Chern classes c1,,ck(mn+1)c_1,\ldots,c_{k(m-n+1)}. Let Qk\mathcal{Q}_k and the variables z1,,zkz_1,\ldots,z_k be the Thom-series data used in the source.

Rimányi's positivity conjecture. The coefficients of the Thom polynomial are nonnegative, equivalently

TpkmnN[c1,,ck(mn+1)].\mathrm{Tp}_k^{m-n}\in\mathbb{N}[c_1,\ldots,c_{k(m-n+1)}].

More generally, the source proposes positivity of the Thom-series expression

i<j(zizj)Qk(z1zk)i+jlk(zi+zjzl)>0,\frac{\prod_{i<j}(z_i-z_j)\,\mathcal{Q}_k(z_1\ldots z_k)}{\prod_{i+j\le l\le k}(z_i+z_j-z_l)}>0,

meaning that its coefficients are nonnegative. The source gives no resolution of this positivity conjecture.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Gergely Bérczi, “Moduli of map germs, Thom polynomials and the Green-Griffiths conjecture”, arXiv:1305.4276 (2013).

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