Unimodal and anti-unimodal atom positivity conjecture for flagged LLT polynomials

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Let ν,σ{\boldsymbol\nu},\sigma be any flagged LLT indexing data, and let Gν,σ[x1,…,xl;t]\mathcal G_{{\boldsymbol\nu},\sigma}[x_1,\ldots,x_l;t] be the associated flagged LLT polynomial. If

Gν,σ[x1,…,xl;t]=∑λaλ(t)Aλ(x),\mathcal G_{{\boldsymbol\nu},\sigma}[x_1,\ldots,x_l;t]=\sum_{\lambda}a_\lambda(t)\mathcal A_\lambda(x),

then aλ(t)=⟨Aλ(x)⟩Gν,σ[x1,…,xl;t]a_\lambda(t)=\langle\mathcal A_\lambda(x)\rangle\mathcal G_{{\boldsymbol\nu},\sigma}[x_1,\ldots,x_l;t]. An index is unimodal if it is weakly increasing and then weakly decreasing, and anti-unimodal if it is weakly decreasing and then weakly increasing. Unimodal and anti-unimodal atom positivity conjecture. For every flagged LLT indexing datum, aλ(t)∈N[t]a_\lambda(t)\in\mathbb N[t] whenever λ\lambda is unimodal or anti-unimodal.

This conjecture gives another extension of symmetric LLT Schur positivity. The source provides no resolution, so it remains open.

References

Primary source

Jonah Blasiak, Mark Haiman, Jennifer Morse, Anna Pun and George H. Seelinger, “Flagged LLT polynomials, nonsymmetric plethysm, and nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials”, arXiv:2506.09015 (2025).

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