Postnikov–Stanley conjecture on the roots of truncated affine Weyl arrangement polynomials

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Let Φ\Phi be an irreducible root system with Coxeter number hh, and let VV be its ambient vector space. For integers a≤ba\leq b, define the truncated affine Weyl arrangement

AΦ[a,b]={Hα,k∣α∈Φ+, k∈Z, a≤k≤b},\mathcal{A}_{\Phi}^{[a,b]}=\{H_{\alpha,k}\mid \alpha\in\Phi^+,\ k\in\mathbb{Z},\ a\leq k\leq b\},

where Hα,k={x∈V∣(α,x)=k}H_{\alpha,k}=\{x\in V\mid (\alpha,x)=k\}, and write χ(AΦ[a,b],t)\chi(\mathcal{A}_{\Phi}^{[a,b]},t) for its characteristic polynomial. Postnikov–Stanley conjecture. If a,b∈Za,b\in\mathbb{Z} satisfy a≤1≤ba\leq 1\leq b and 1≤a+b1\leq a+b, then every root z∈Cz\in\mathbb{C} of

χ(AΦ[a,b],t)=0\chi(\mathcal{A}_{\Phi}^{[a,b]},t)=0

has real part

Re⁡z=(b−a+1)h2.\operatorname{Re}z=\frac{(b-a+1)h}{2}.

This extends the Linial-arrangement case [a,b]=[1,n][a,b]=[1,n], asserting that the characteristic polynomial has all its roots on a common vertical line in the complex plane. The supplied text states the conjecture but gives no information about whether it has been resolved.

References

Primary source

Shigetaro Tamura, “Postnikov-Stanley Linial arrangement conjecture”, arXiv:2012.05634 (2020).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1610.07841, arXiv:1212.3523.

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