Macdonald superpolynomial positivity conjecture

Let JΛ(q,t)=hΛlo(q,t)PΛ(q,t)J_{\Lambda}(q,t)=h_{\Lambda}^{\mathrm{lo}}(q,t)P_{\Lambda}(q,t) be the integral form of the super-Macdonald polynomial. Define HΛ(q,t)=φt(JΛ(q,t))H_{\Lambda}(q,t)=\varphi_t(J_{\Lambda}(q,t)), where φt(pr)=(1tr)1pr\varphi_t(p_r)=(1-t^r)^{-1}p_r and φt(p~s)=p~s\varphi_t(\tilde p_s)=\tilde p_s. Expand HΛH_{\Lambda} in the Schur superpolynomial basis as

HΛ(q,t)=\OmK\OmΛ(q,t)s\Om.H_{\Lambda}(q,t)=\sum_{\Om}K_{\Om\Lambda}(q,t)s_{\Om}.

Macdonald superpolynomial positivity conjecture. For all superpartitions Λ\Lambda and \Om\Om, the coefficients satisfy

K\OmΛ(q,t)N[q,t].K_{\Om\Lambda}(q,t)\in\mathbb N[q,t].

This extends Macdonald positivity to superspace. The source gives no resolution status and attributes the conjecture to BF1.

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Primary source

Ludovic Alarie-Vezina, Olivier Blondeau-Fournier, Patrick Desrosiers, Luc Lapointe and Pierre Mathieu, “Symmetric functions in superspace: a compendium of results and open problems (including a SageMath worksheet)”, arXiv:1903.07777 (2019).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2000–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1202.3922, arXiv:1112.5188, arXiv:math/0010246.

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