Equivariant log-concavity conjecture for rook placement loci

For 0rmin{m,n}0\le r\le\min\{m,n\}, let Zn,m,r{\mathcal{Z}}_{n,m,r} be the locus of n×mn\times m rook placements with exactly rr rooks, and let R(Zn,m,r)R({\mathcal{Z}}_{n,m,r}) denote its orbit harmonics ring. The left and right actions of Sn{\mathfrak{S}}_n and Sm{\mathfrak{S}}_m make this a graded Sn×Sm{\mathfrak{S}}_n\times{\mathfrak{S}}_m-module. Equivariant log-concavity conjecture. For every 0rmin{m,n}0\le r\le\min\{m,n\}, the orbit harmonics ring

R(Zn,m,r)R({\mathcal{Z}}_{n,m,r})

is Sn×Sm{\mathfrak{S}}_n\times{\mathfrak{S}}_m-log-concave. Since Zn,n,n=Sn{\mathcal{Z}}_{n,n,n}={\mathfrak{S}}_n, this extends Rhoades's conjecture. It has been verified computationally for n8n\le8 and m10m\le10, but remains unproved in general.

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Primary source

Hai Zhu, “Rook placements and orbit harmonics”, arXiv:2510.25106 (2026).

Additional references

7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2510.23735, arXiv:2503.19694, arXiv:2409.06175, arXiv:2408.10728, arXiv:2205.05420, arXiv:1605.01777.

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