Coefficientwise Hankel-total positivity conjecture for the GKP recurrence

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Let Pn(x;μ)P_n(x;\bm{\mu}) be the row-generating polynomials of the GKP recurrence, with parameters x,α,β,γ,α′,β′,γ′x,\alpha,\beta,\gamma,\alpha',\beta',\gamma'. A sequence of polynomials is coefficientwise Hankel-totally positive when every minor of its Hankel matrix has nonnegative coefficients in the indicated indeterminates.

Coefficientwise Hankel-total positivity conjecture for the GKP recurrence. The sequence

P=(Pn(x;μ))n≥0\bm{P}=(P_n(x;\bm{\mu}))_{n\geq 0}

of row-generating polynomials of the GKP recurrence is coefficientwise Hankel-totally positive, jointly in the seven indeterminates x,α,β,γ,α′,β′,γ′x,\alpha,\beta,\gamma,\alpha',\beta',\gamma'.

The conjecture had been confirmed computationally through the 8×88\times 8 Hankel matrix (Pi+j(x;μ))0≤i,j≤7(P_{i+j}(x;\bm{\mu}))_{0\leq i,j\leq 7}, but no proof or general resolution is given.

References

Primary source

Jesús Salas and Alan D. Sokal, “The Graham–Knuth–Patashnik recurrence: Symmetries and continued fractions”, arXiv:2008.03070 (2021).

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