The interlacing conjecture for Z-polynomials of nice matroid families

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Let {Md∣d≥0}\{M_d\mid d\geq 0\} be a nice family of matroids, and let Zd(t)Z_d(t) denote the ZZ-polynomial associated with MdM_d. For polynomials with real roots, say that f(t)f(t) interlaces g(t)g(t) when their roots satisfy the interlacing inequalities in the source. The interlacing conjecture. For every dd, Zd(t)Z_d(t) interlaces Zd−1(t)Z_{d-1}(t).

This conjecture parallels the proposed interlacing relationship for matroid Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials. The source states that the corresponding Kazhdan–Lusztig interlacing conjecture remains open, but gives no separate resolution status for this ZZ-polynomial version.

References

Primary source

Nicholas Proudfoot, Ben Young and Yuan Xu, “The Z-polynomial of a matroid”, arXiv:1706.05575 (2017).

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