Sokal's conjecture on functional-digraph component polynomials
Let be the number of functional digraphs on with weakly connected components, and define
A functional digraph is a directed graph in which every vertex has out-degree ; a vertex is cyclic if it lies on a directed cycle. Let denote the lower-triangular counting matrix.
Sokal's functional-digraph conjecture. The following assertions hold: (i) is totally positive; (ii) is coefficientwise Hankel-totally positive in ; (iii) is Hankel-totally positive, equivalently, it is a Stieltjes moment sequence.
These assertions concern positivity of functional-digraph enumeration matrices, component polynomials, and the connected case. The source gives no resolution, so the conjecture remains open.
References
Primary source
Bao-Xuan Zhu, “Coefficientwise Hankel-total positivity of the row-generating polynomials for the output matrices of certain production matrices”, arXiv:2202.03793 (2024).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2006.14485, arXiv:1612.04114.
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