Non-negativity conjecture for the coefficients of Ag(n,q)A_g(n,q)

For integers g2g\ge 2 and n1n\ge 1, let Ag(n,q)A_g(n,q) be the polynomial associated in the paper with the counting of tuples of nilpotent matrices under simultaneous conjugation. Write

Ag(n,q)=san,sqs,A_g(n,q)=\sum_s a_{n,s}q^s,

where the coefficients an,sa_{n,s} are integers. Non-negativity conjecture. For every g2g\ge 2 and n1n\ge 1, all coefficients an,sa_{n,s} are non-negative integers. This predicts positivity for the counting polynomial and is not accompanied here by a resolution, so its status remains open.

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Primary source

Jiuzhao Hua, “On Numbers of Tuples of Nilpotent Matrices over Finite Fields under Simultaneous Conjugation”, arXiv:2102.07290 (2021).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2011.10552.

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