Sahi's positivity conjecture for coefficients of the geometric-mean expansion

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Let LL be an FKG poset, and let f1(x),f2(x),…f_1(x),f_2(x),\ldots be a sequence of positive monotone decreasing functions on LL. Form the formal power series

F(x,t)=1−f1(x)t−f2(x)t2−⋯F(x,t)=1-f_1(x)t-f_2(x)t^2-\cdots

and define its geometric mean by

G(F)=exp⁡(E(log⁡F))=1−c1t−c2t2−⋯ .G(F)=\exp\bigl({\mathord{\cal E}}(\log F)\bigr)=1-c_1t-c_2t^2-\cdots.

Sahi's coefficient-positivity conjecture. For every n≥1n\geq 1, the coefficient cnc_n satisfies

cn≥0.c_n\geq 0.

The conjecture is a formal-power-series reformulation of the generalized inequalities En≥0E_n\geq0, motivated by potential applications of the FKG inequality in probability, combinatorics, statistics, and physics. Its resolution is not given in the source.

References

Primary source

Elliott H Lieb and Siddhartha Sahi, “On the extension of the FKG inequality to n functions”, arXiv:2107.09838 (2022).

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