Positivity conjecture for structure coefficients of the matroid Kazhdan–Lusztig basis

Let MM be a matroid with lattice of flats L(M)L(M), let Eq(M)E_q(M) be its qq-deformed Möbius algebra, and let {xFFL(M)}\{x_F\mid F\in L(M)\} be the Kazhdan–Lusztig basis. Define structure coefficients CFGH(q)Z[q]C_{FG}^H(q)\in\mathbb{Z}[q] by

xFxG=HCFGH(q)xH.x_F\cdot x_G=\sum_H C_{FG}^H(q)x_H.

Structure-coefficient positivity conjecture. For all F,G,HL(M)F,G,H\in L(M), CFGH(q)N[q]C_{FG}^H(q)\in\mathbb{N}[q]. The conjecture was disproved by examples in rank 44 and higher, including a uniform matroid of rank 44 on 66 elements.

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Ben Elias, Nicholas Proudfoot and Max Wakefield, “The Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of a matroid”, arXiv:1412.7408 (2016).

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