Foley–Hoàng–Merkel's twinning conjecture for (3+1)(3+1)-free posets

Let PP be a (3+1)(3+1)-free poset, let vPv\in P, and let PvP_v be the poset obtained by adding an element vv' that is incomparable to ww if and only if either w=vw=v or ww is incomparable to vv. Let Inc(P)\operatorname{Inc}(P) denote the incomparability graph of PP.

Foley–Hoàng–Merkel's twinning conjecture. If PP is (3+1)(3+1)-free and XInc(P)(x)X_{\operatorname{Inc}(P)}(\mathbf{x}) is ee-positive, then XInc(Pv)(x)X_{\operatorname{Inc}(P_v)}(\mathbf{x}) is ee-positive for any vPv\in P.

This is a weakened version of the Stanley–Stembridge conjecture, motivated by the fact that twinning preserves the property of being (3+1)(3+1)-free. The source does not state that this conjecture has been resolved.

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Primary source

Esther Banaian, Kyle Celano, Megan Chang-Lee, Laura Colmenarejo, Owen Goff, Jamie Kimble, Lauren Kimpel, John Lentfer, Jinting Liang and Sheila Sundaram, “The e-positivity of the chromatic symmetric function for twinned paths and cycles”, arXiv:2405.17649 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2010.14312.

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