Lassalle's positivity conjecture for Jack character polynomials

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Let λ\lambda be a partition and let θμ(α)(λ)\theta^{(\alpha)}_\mu(\lambda) be the Jack-character coefficient defined by the paper, with b:=α−1b:=\alpha-1. Let m1(μ)m_1(\mu) denote the number of parts of μ\mu equal to 11, and let (q1,q2,…,r1,r2,…)(q_1,q_2,\ldots,r_1,r_2,\ldots) be the multirectangular coordinates of λ\lambda. Lassalle's positivity conjecture. For every partition μ\mu of size mm with m1(μ)=0m_1(\mu)=0, the quantity (−1)∣μ∣zμθμ(α)(λ)(-1)^{|\mu|}z_\mu\theta^{(\alpha)}_\mu(\lambda) is a polynomial in (b,q1,q2,…,−r1,−r2,…)(b,q_1,q_2,\ldots,-r_1,-r_2,\ldots) with non-negative integer coefficients. The source states that polynomiality in α\alpha and in the multirectangular coordinates is known, while this positivity property remains a conjecture.

References

Primary source

Houcine Ben Dali, “Generating series of non-oriented constellations and marginal sums in the Matching-Jack conjecture”, arXiv:2106.15414 (2021).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2003–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1608.02447, arXiv:1301.6531, arXiv:math/0303025.

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