Graham positivity conjecture for triple Grothendieck polynomial coefficients

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Let β\beta be a formal variable, let u,v,wSu,v,w\in S_\infty, and let Gw(x;y)\mathfrak{G}_w(\mathbf{x};\mathbf{y}) denote the double Grothendieck polynomial. Define the coefficients c~u,vw(y,t)\tilde{c}_{u,v}^{\,w}(\mathbf{y},\mathbf{t}) by

Gu(x;y)Gv(x;t)=wSc~u,vw(y,t)Gw(x;t).\mathfrak{G}_u(\mathbf{x};\mathbf{y})\mathfrak{G}_v(\mathbf{x};\mathbf{t})=\sum_{w\in S_\infty}\tilde{c}_{u,v}^{\,w}(\mathbf{y},\mathbf{t})\mathfrak{G}_w(\mathbf{x};\mathbf{t}).

For variables a,ba,b, write ab:=ab1+βba\ominus b:=\frac{a-b}{1+\beta b}. Graham positivity conjecture. For all u,v,wSu,v,w\in S_\infty,

c~u,vw(y,t)N[β][tiyj]i,j1.\tilde{c}_{u,v}^{\,w}(\mathbf{y},\mathbf{t})\in\mathbb{N}[\beta][t_i\ominus y_j]_{i,j\geq 1}.

This conjecture proposes a positivity property for the coefficients in the product of double Grothendieck polynomials, extending the Graham-positivity phenomenon established earlier in the paper for triple Schubert calculus. Its resolution is not supplied in the given text.

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Primary source

Yibo Gao and Rui Xiong, “Graham positivity of triple Schubert calculus”, arXiv:2506.09421 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1109.2193, arXiv:1105.2170.

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