Corteel--Dousse--Uncu positivity conjecture for cylindric partitions

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For a nonnegative integer nn and a profile c=(c0,c1,c2)c=(c_0,c_1,c_2), define d:=c0+c1+c2d:=c_0+c_1+c_2, ℓ:=gcd⁡(d,3)\ell:=\gcd(d,3), and

Qn,c(q):=(qℓ;qℓ)n[zn]((zq)∞GK⁡c(z,q))∈Z[[q]].Q_{n,c}(q):=(q^{\ell};q^{\ell})_n[z^n]\bigl((zq)_\infty\operatorname{GK}_c(z,q)\bigr)\in\mathbb Z[[q]].

Assume d≢0(mod3)d\not\equiv0\pmod 3. Corteel--Dousse--Uncu's conjecture. The series Qn,(c0,c1,c2)(q)Q_{n,(c_0,c_1,c_2)}(q) is a polynomial in qq with nonnegative coefficients and

Qn,(c0,c1,c2)(1)=((d+1)(d+2)6−1)n.Q_{n,(c_0,c_1,c_2)}(1)=\left(\frac{(d+1)(d+2)}{6}-1\right)^n.

Polynomiality and the evaluation at 11 are known, but positivity remains open.

References

Primary source

S. Ole Warnaar, “The A_2 Andrews-Gordon identities and cylindric partitions”, arXiv:2111.07550 (2023).

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