A cyclic q-Narayana-type positivity conjecture

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Let mm be a positive integer, let n1,,nmn_1,\ldots,n_m be positive integers, and set nm+1=n1n_{m+1}=n_1. Let jj be an integer and let rr be a non-negative integer. The cyclic q-Narayana-type conjecture. The expression

1[n1][n1+nmn1]i=1m1[ni+ni+1+1]k=1n1[2k][k]2rqjk2(r+1)ki=1m[ni+ni+1+1ni+k][ni+ni+1+1ni+k+1]\frac{1}{[n_1]{n_1+n_m\brack n_1}}\prod_{i=1}^{m}\frac{1}{[n_i+n_{i+1}+1]}\sum_{k=1}^{n_1}[2k][k]^{2r}q^{jk^2-(r+1)k}\prod_{i=1}^{m}{n_i+n_{i+1}+1\brack n_i+k}{n_i+n_{i+1}+1\brack n_i+k+1}

is a Laurent polynomial in qq, and it has non-negative integer coefficients when 0j2m0\leqslant j\leqslant 2m. When all nin_i are equal, the claim reduces to the preceding q-Narayana corollary. The paper presents it as its final conjecture and leaves it open.

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Victor J. W. Guo and Su-Dan Wang, “Factors of sums involving q-binomial coefficients and powers of q-integers”, arXiv:1701.07016 (2017).

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