Schur and shifted-ee positivity conjecture for generalized LLT polynomials

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Let w∈Snw\in S_n and define the generalized LLT polynomial by

LLT⁡(w):=(q−1)n(ω(ch⁡(qℓ(w)2Cw′)))[xq−1],\operatorname{LLT}(w):=(q-1)^n\left(\omega\left(\operatorname{ch}\left(q^{\frac{\ell(w)}{2}}C'_w\right)\right)\right)\left[\frac{\mathbf{x}}{q-1}\right],

where Cw′C'_w is a Kazhdan–Lusztig element and ω\omega is the standard involution on symmetric functions. A symmetric function is shifted ee-positive if it is a nonnegative combination in the shifted elementary basis. Generalized LLT positivity conjecture. For every w∈Snw\in S_n, LLT⁡(w)\operatorname{LLT}(w) is Schur-positive and shifted ee-positive. The source motivates this by the corresponding known properties for codominant permutations and gives no resolution.

References

Primary source

Alex Abreu and Antonio Nigro, “A geometric approach to characters of Hecke algebras”, arXiv:2205.14835 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2112.12676.

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