Unimodality and log-concavity conjecture for Mather polynomials

Let X=G/PX=G/P be a cominuscule space and let wWPw\in W^P. Write

cMa(XwP)=vaw,v[XvP]{c_{\operatorname{Ma}}}(X_w^P)=\sum_v a_{w,v}[X_v^P]

and define the Mather polynomial by

Mw(x)=vaw,vx(v).M_w(x)=\sum_v a_{w,v}x^{\ell(v)}.

Unimodality and log-concavity conjecture for Mather polynomials. The polynomial MwM_w has strictly positive coefficients and is unimodal. If in addition G/P=Gr(k,n)G/P=\operatorname{Gr}(k,n), then MwM_w is log concave. These properties are motivated by substantial calculations in all Lie types; the source gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Leonardo C. Mihalcea and Rahul Singh, “Mather classes and conormal spaces of Schubert varieties in cominuscule spaces”, arXiv:2006.04842 (2020).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2004.13116, arXiv:1604.02938.

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