Brenti's log-concavity conjecture for Eulerian polynomials of labeled posets

Let PP be a poset with a labeling ω\omega, and let L(P,ω)\mathcal{L}(P,\omega) be its Jordan--Hölder set. Define the (P,ω)(P,\omega)-Eulerian polynomial by

WP,ω(t)=σL(P,ω)tdes(σ).W_{P,\omega}(t)=\sum_{\sigma\in\mathcal{L}(P,\omega)}t^{\operatorname{des}(\sigma)}.

Brenti's conjecture. The polynomial WP,ωW_{P,\omega} is log-concave with no internal zeroes.

The conjecture was posed by Brenti in 1989 after the Neggers--Stanley real-rootedness conjecture was disproved. The source states that it remains open for general labeled posets; it concerns unimodality and log-concavity of these descent-generating polynomials.

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Primary source

Per Alexandersson and Aryaman Jal, “Rook matroids and log-concavity of P-Eulerian polynomials”, arXiv:2410.00127 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2004–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0412222.

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