The Lorentzian conjecture for normalized shifted characters

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Let Λ\Lambda be the weight lattice of slm(C)\mathfrak{sl}_m(\mathbb{C}), let V(λ)\mathrm{V}(\lambda) be the irreducible module of highest weight λ\lambda, and define its shifted character by

chλ(x1,…,xm)=∑μ∈Λdim⁡V(λ)μ xμ−λ.\mathrm{ch}_{\lambda}(x_1,\ldots,x_m)=\sum_{\mu\in\Lambda}\dim\mathrm{V}(\lambda)_\mu\,x^{\mu-\lambda}.

For δ∈Nm\delta\in\mathbb{N}^m, write xδ=x1δ1⋯xmδmx^\delta=x_1^{\delta_1}\cdots x_m^{\delta_m}. Shifted-character conjecture. The polynomial

N(xδ chλ(x1,…,xm))\mathrm{N}(x^\delta\,\mathrm{ch}_{\lambda}(x_1,\ldots,x_m))

is Lorentzian for every λ∈Λ\lambda\in\Lambda and δ∈Nm\delta\in\mathbb{N}^m. The source reports computational tests for selected weights and dimensions, but no proof of the general assertion.

References

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June Huh, Jacob P. Matherne, Karola Mészáros and Avery St. Dizier, “Logarithmic concavity of Schur and related polynomials”, arXiv:1906.09633 (2019).

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