The positive rationality conjecture for normalized skew qq-hook-content formulas

Let μλ\mu\subseteq\lambda be partitions, let \ell be the length of λ\lambda, and fix an integer nn\geq\ell. Let Hλ/μ(n;q)H_{\lambda/\mu}(n;q) be the skew qq-hook-content quantity and let [λ/μ]q![\lvert\lambda/\mu\rvert]_q! denote the corresponding qq-factorial. The normalized positive rationality conjecture. There exist a(q),b(q)Z0[q]a(q),b(q)\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0}[q] such that

Hλ/μ(n;q)[λ/μ]q!=a(q)b(q),a(1)Z0.\frac{H_{\lambda/\mu}(n;q)}{[\lvert\lambda/\mu\rvert]_q!}=\frac{a(q)}{b(q)},\qquad a(-1)\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0}.

The conjecture is based on experimental evidence and concerns the normalized expression even when it is not polynomial. The supplied text gives no proof or resolution.

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Anatol N. Kirillov and Travis Scrimshaw, “Hook-content formula using excited Young diagrams”, arXiv:1904.00371 (2019).

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