Okounkov's Kac polynomial character conjecture for the Maulik–Okounkov Lie algebra

Let QQ be an arbitrary finite quiver and fix a dimension vector dNQ0\mathbf{d}\in\mathbf{N}^{Q_0}. Let aQ,d(q)Z[q]\mathtt{a}_{Q,\mathbf{d}}(q)\in\mathbf{Z}[q] be Kac's polynomial, counting isomorphism classes of absolutely indecomposable d\mathbf{d}-dimensional QQ-representations over Fq\mathbf{F}_q. Write (gQ,dMO)k(\mathfrak{g}^{\operatorname{\mathtt{MO}}}_{Q,\mathbf{d}})^k for the kk-th cohomologically graded piece of the d\mathbf{d}-th graded piece of gQMO\mathfrak{g}^{\operatorname{\mathtt{MO}}}_{Q}. Okounkov's conjecture. For every such QQ and d\mathbf{d}, there is an equality

kZdim((gQ,dMO)k)qk/2=aQ,d(q1).\sum_{k\in\mathbf{Z}}\dim\left((\mathfrak{g}^{\operatorname{\mathtt{MO}}}_{Q,\mathbf{d}})^k\right)q^{k/2}=\mathtt{a}_{Q,\mathbf{d}}(q^{-1}).

The conjecture proposes a Lie-theoretic interpretation of all coefficients of Kac polynomials; the source states that it has been resolved through the theory of BPS Lie algebras, while Kac's constant-term conjecture was proved earlier by Hausel.

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Tommaso Maria Botta and Ben Davison, “Okounkov's conjecture via BPS Lie algebras”, arXiv:2312.14008 (2025).

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