Monomial positivity conjecture for the super nabla operator

Fix n1n\geq 1. For partitions π,μ,νn\pi,\mu,\nu\vdash n, define dμ,νπ(α)d^\pi_{\mu,\nu}(\alpha) by

(p,q)pπ=μ,νndμ,νπ(α)pμmν(q),\nabla(\boldsymbol{p},\boldsymbol{q})p_\pi=\sum_{\mu,\nu\vdash n}d^\pi_{\mu,\nu}(\alpha)p_\mu m_\nu(\boldsymbol{q}),

where mνm_\nu denotes the monomial symmetric function in the alphabet q\boldsymbol{q}. Monomial positivity conjecture. The coefficients satisfy dμ,νπ(α)N[α]d^\pi_{\mu,\nu}(\alpha)\in\mathbb N[\alpha]. This conjecture was tested for n9n\leq 9. The Matching–Jack conjecture and power-sum monomial positivity imply positivity in N[b]\mathbb N[b]; the conjecture proposes positivity in N[α]\mathbb N[\alpha] without shifting the parameter.

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Primary source

Houcine Ben Dali, “A formula for the Jack super nabla operator”, arXiv:2509.18625 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0802.0448.

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