Conjecture on positivity and integrality of the multi-backbone ancestor coefficients

For genus gg and the general multi-backbone case, let b^k,β(g)\widehat b^{(g)}_{\vec k,\vec\beta} denote the coefficients identified with combinations of ancestor invariants, where k\vec k and β\vec\beta are the corresponding multi-index data. Multi-backbone coefficient conjecture. All coefficients b^k,β(g)\widehat b^{(g)}_{\vec k,\vec\beta} are positive integers. The preceding single-backbone result establishes positivity and integrality for the coefficients bk(g)b^{(g)}_k; the source proposes the analogous assertion for the general multi-backbone coefficients, without giving a proof or resolution.

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Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen, Leonid O. Chekhov, Paul Norbury and Robert C. Penner, “Models of discretized moduli spaces, cohomological field theories, and Gaussian means”, arXiv:1501.05867 (2015).

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