Galashin–Pylyavskyy positivity conjecture for arborescence ratios

Let Γ\Gamma be a directed graph, let Γ~\tilde{\Gamma} be a kk-cover of Γ\Gamma, let vv be a vertex of Γ\Gamma, and let v~\tilde{v} be a lift of vv in Γ~\tilde{\Gamma}. If the edge weights of Γ\Gamma are indeterminates, then the polynomial

Av~(Γ~)Av(Γ)\frac{A_{\tilde{v}}(\tilde{\Gamma})}{A_v(\Gamma)}

has positive coefficients. Galashin–Pylyavskyy positivity conjecture. The stated arborescence ratio has positive coefficients. This extends the known integrality result and is proved in the paper for regular covers with 2-group deck groups; the general case remains open.

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Sunita Chepuri, CJ Dowd, Andy Hardt, Gregory Michel, Sylvester W. Zhang and Valerie Zhang, “Arborescences of Covering Graphs”, arXiv:1912.01060 (2021).

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