Jack differences in the Muirhead semiring

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Fix τ0[0,]\tau_0\in[0,\infty], and let λ\lambda and μ\mu be partitions. Let MS(R0)\mathcal M_S(\mathbb R_{\geqslant0}) denote the Muirhead semiring over the nonnegative reals. Muirhead-semiring conjecture. If λ\lambda majorizes μ\mu, then

Pλ(x;τ0)Pλ(1;τ0)Pμ(x;τ0)Pμ(1;τ0)MS(R0);\frac{P_\lambda(x;\tau_0)}{P_\lambda(\bm1;\tau_0)}-\frac{P_\mu(x;\tau_0)}{P_\mu(\bm1;\tau_0)}\in\mathcal M_S(\mathbb R_{\geqslant0});

and conversely. This strengthens the Jack positivity conjecture by replacing positivity with membership in the Muirhead semiring. The supplied status evidence says that the analogous Muirhead-cone assertion is false, but does not refute this semiring statement.

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Hong Chen, Apoorva Khare and Siddhartha Sahi, “Majorization via positivity of Jack and Macdonald polynomial differences”, arXiv:2509.19649 (2026).

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