Determinantal inequality threshold conjecture for the broken k-diamond partition function

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Let Δk(n)\Delta_k(n) denote the broken kk-diamond partition function. For a sequence, its order-mm determinantal inequality is the nonnegativity of the Toeplitz minor

det(Δk(ni+j))1i,jm.\det\bigl(\Delta_k(n-i+j)\bigr)_{1\leq i,j\leq m}.

Determinantal threshold conjecture. For k=1k=1 or 22 and 1m141\leq m\leq14, one has

det(Δk(ni+j))1i,jm0\det\bigl(\Delta_k(n-i+j)\bigr)_{1\leq i,j\leq m}\geq0

for nNΔk(m)n\geq\mathbf N_{\Delta_k}(m), with thresholds

m1234567891011121314NΔ1(m)112084194362594890125817002218281834984264NΔ2(m)111872168308506762108214641914243630283696\begin{array}{c|rrrrrrrrrrrrrr} m&1&2&3&4&5&6&7&8&9&10&11&12&13&14\\ \mathbf N_{\Delta_1}(m)&1&1&20&84&194&362&594&890&1258&1700&2218&2818&3498&4264\\ \mathbf N_{\Delta_2}(m)&1&1&18&72&168&308&506&762&1082&1464&1914&2436&3028&3696 \end{array}

The statement is posed among the paper's open problems as numerical evidence for eventual determinantal positivity.

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Eve Y. Y. Yang, “Laguerre inequality and determinantal inequality for the broken k-diamond partition function”, arXiv:2305.17864 (2023).

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