The four matroid polynomial conjectures
The four matroid polynomial conjectures
Let be a matroid, with Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomial , -polynomial , inverse Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomial , and inverse -polynomial .
The four matroid polynomial conjectures. For every matroid , the polynomial is real-rooted, the polynomial is real-rooted, the polynomial has log-concave coefficients, and the polynomial has log-concave coefficients.
The first, third, and fourth claims are supported primarily by computations for special families of matroids. For the second, -polynomials are known to be -positive, which is weaker than real-rootedness but stronger than unimodality; all four claims remain open here.
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Tom Braden, Luis Ferroni, Jacob P. Matherne and Nutan Nepal, “Inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of matroids under deletion”, arXiv:2510.01086 (2025).
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