Alexandersson–Haglund–Wang conjecture on Schur expansions of integral Jack polynomials

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Let λ\lambda and μ\mu be partitions of dd. Define the integral Jack polynomial by Jλ(x;τ)=cλ(τ)Pλ(x;τ)J_\lambda(x;\tau)=c_\lambda(\tau)P_\lambda(x;\tau), and write its Schur expansion as

Jλ(τ)=∑μvλμ(τ)sμ.J_\lambda(\tau)=\sum_\mu v_{\lambda\mu}(\tau)s_\mu.

Define ak(λ,μ)a_k(\lambda,\mu) and bk(λ,μ)b_k(\lambda,\mu) by

vλμ(τ)=∑k=0d−1ak(λ,μ)(τ+kd)=∑k=1dbd−k(λ,μ)(τk)k!.v_{\lambda\mu}(\tau)=\sum_{k=0}^{d-1}a_k(\lambda,\mu)\binom{\tau+k}{d}=\sum_{k=1}^{d}b_{d-k}(\lambda,\mu)\binom{\tau}{k}k!.

Alexandersson–Haglund–Wang conjecture. The coefficients ak(λ,μ)a_k(\lambda,\mu) and bd−k(λ,μ)b_{d-k}(\lambda,\mu) are nonnegative integers. Moreover, the polynomials

∑k=0dak(λ,μ)zkand∑k=0dbd−k(λ,μ)zk\sum_{k=0}^{d}a_k(\lambda,\mu)z^k\qquad\text{and}\qquad\sum_{k=0}^{d}b_{d-k}(\lambda,\mu)z^k

have only real zeros. This conjecture concerns positivity, integrality, and real-rootedness of the Schur-expansion coefficients; the supplied text gives no resolution.

References

Primary source

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

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