Sokal's factorial monomial-positivity conjecture for products of elementary symmetric functions

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Let λ=(λ1,…,λn)\lambda=(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_n) and μ=(μ1,…,μn)\mu=(\mu_1,\dots,\mu_n) be partitions with at most nn parts satisfying μ⊆λ\mu\subseteq\lambda. Let kk and rr be integers with 0≤r≤k−10\leq r\leq k-1, and let x(1),…,x(k)\mathbf{x}^{(1)},\dots,\mathbf{x}^{(k)} be variable sequences. Sokal's conjecture. The determinant

det⁡(((λi−μj−i+j)!)reλi−μj−i+j(x(1))⋯eλi−μj−i+j(x(k)))i,j=1n\det\left(\left((\lambda_i-\mu_j-i+j)!\right)^r e_{\lambda_i-\mu_j-i+j}(\mathbf{x}^{(1)})\cdots e_{\lambda_i-\mu_j-i+j}(\mathbf{x}^{(k)})\right)_{i,j=1}^{n}

is mm-positive, meaning that it is a nonnegative integer combination of monomial symmetric functions in the relevant variable sets. This conjecture strengthens Schur's theorem on factorial Hadamard products of real-rooted polynomials and extends Sokal's Hadamard-product conjecture. The source does not state whether it has been resolved.

References

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Robert Angarone, Jang Soo Kim, Jaeseong Oh and Daniel Soskin, “Hadamard Products of dual Jacobi-Trudi matrices”, arXiv:2511.08969 (2025).

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