Chan–Pak conjecture on the log-concavity of minimum positions in linear extensions
Let be a finite poset, let , and let be a uniformly random linear extension of . Define
Chan–Pak conjecture. For every , the sequence of probabilities of the minimum position is log-concave:
This conjecture generalizes Stanley's log-concavity theorem, recovered when . The source presents it as a conjecture, and no resolution is supplied here.
References
Primary source
Jonathan Leake, Kasper Lindberg and Shayan Oveis Gharan, “Optimal Trickle-Down Theorems for Path Complexes via C-Lorentzian Polynomials with Applications to Sampling and Log-Concave Sequences”, arXiv:2503.01005 (2025).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2311.02203.
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