Total-positivity conjecture for the reversed Stirling subset triangle
Total-positivity conjecture for the reversed Stirling subset triangle
Let \genfrac\{\}{\}{0pt}{}{n}{k} denote the Stirling subset number, and define the reversed Stirling subset triangle by \genfrac\{\}{\}{0pt}{}{n}{k}^{\rm rev}=\genfrac\{\}{\}{0pt}{}{n}{n-k}. Write \bm{S}^{\rm rev}=\left(\genfrac\{\}{\}{0pt}{}{n}{k}^{\rm rev}\right)_{n,k\geq 0}. Total-positivity conjecture. The reversed Stirling subset triangle is totally positive. The source emphasizes that total positivity need not be preserved by reversal and presents this assertion as an open conjecture; it later notes that the more general conjecture would imply it by specialization.
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Xi Chen, Bishal Deb, Alexander Dyachenko, Tomack Gilmore and Alan D. Sokal, “Coefficientwise total positivity of some matrices defined by linear recurrences”, arXiv:2012.03629 (2020).
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