Total nonnegativity of the flipped excedance matrix

Let M(m,n)M(m,n) be the excedance matrix, and let N(m,n)N(m,n) be obtained by reversing the order of its rows: its iith row is the (mi+1)(m-i+1)st row of M(m,n)M(m,n). A matrix is totally nonnegative if every square submatrix has nonnegative determinant. Total-nonnegativity conjecture. The matrix N(m,n)N(m,n) is totally nonnegative. This conjecture concerns the sign and minor structure of the excedance matrix and is presented without a resolution in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Richard Ehrenborg, Alex Happ, Dustin Hedmark and Cyrus Hettle, “Box polynomials and the excedance matrix”, arXiv:1708.09804 (2017).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1011.1769.

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