Prime cyclotomic factor conjecture for unimodal generating functions

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Let Φuni\Phi^{\operatorname{uni}} denote the monoid of cyclotomic generating functions that are unimodal, and let Φp(q)\Phi_p(q) denote the ppth cyclotomic polynomial for a prime pp. Prime cyclotomic factor conjecture. Every nontrivial element fΦunif\in\Phi^{\operatorname{uni}} has a cyclotomic factor of the form Φp(q)\Phi_p(q) for some prime pp.

This is proposed as an analogue of the corresponding factorization property for positive cyclotomic generating functions, motivated by the apparent smoothing effect of multiplication by Φp(q)\Phi_p(q). It had been checked computationally through degree 5050 at the time of writing, but no general proof is given.

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Sara C. Billey and Joshua P. Swanson, “Cyclotomic generating functions”, arXiv:2305.07620 (2024).

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