Equivariant unimodality conjecture for inverse Z-polynomials of matroids

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Let M\mathrm{M} be a matroid equipped with an action of a finite group WW. Its equivariant inverse ZZ-polynomial has coefficients that are virtual representations of WW; a sequence of such representations is equivariantly unimodal if it increases and then decreases with respect to the representation-order relation.

Equivariant unimodality conjecture. For any matroid M\mathrm{M} equipped with an action of a finite group WW, the coefficients of its equivariant inverse ZZ-polynomial are equivariantly unimodal.

The conjecture is confirmed in the paper for uniform matroids. The general case remains open.

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Alice L. L. Gao, Yun Li and Matthew H. Y. Xie, “Equivariant inverse Z-polynomials of matroids”, arXiv:2601.17314 (2026).

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