Sign conjecture for motivic Chern class coefficients in new positivity variables

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Let p,wp,w be permutations, and expand the motivic Chern class \mC[p]\mC[p] in the Schubert basis {[w]}\{\mathbf{[w]}\}. Make the substitutions

τiτi+1=si+1,y=−1−δ.\frac{\tau_i}{\tau_{i+1}}=s_i+1,\qquad y=-1-\delta.

The resulting coefficients are polynomials in the variables sis_i and δ\delta.

New-variable sign conjecture. The coefficients of the si,δs_i,\delta-monomials in the [w]\mathbf{[w]}-expansion of the \mC[p]\mC[p] classes have sign (−1)ℓ(w)(-1)^{\ell(w)}.

This sign pattern differs from the preceding conjecture because it depends only on the length of ww, not on the length of pp. The displayed examples support the conjecture, but the supplied text gives no general verification or resolution.

References

Primary source

Laszlo M. Feher, Richard Rimanyi and Andrzej Weber, “Characteristic classes of orbit stratifications, the axiomatic approach”, arXiv:1811.11467 (2019).

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