Almost all involutions are Kostant negative

Let SnS_n be the symmetric group, let in\mathbf{i}_n denote the number of involutions in SnS_n, and let pin\mathbf{pi}_n denote the number of Kostant positive involutions in SnS_n. Almost-all-involutions conjecture. Almost all involutions in nSnnS_n are Kostant negative, in the sense that

pinin0\frac{\mathbf{pi}_n}{\mathbf{i}_n}\to 0

as nn\to\infty. This is the analogous asymptotic question for involutions, which represent the Kazhdan–Lusztig left cells relevant to Kostant's problem; the supplied text gives no evidence that this assertion has been resolved.

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Samuel Creedon and Volodymyr Mazorchuk, “Almost all permutations and involutions are Kostant negative”, arXiv:2411.13043 (2024).

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