Strong induced log-concavity conjecture for equivariant thagomizer Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials

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Fix n≥0n\ge 0, and let TnT_n be the thagomizer matroid with the action of the hyperoctahedral group Bn\mathcal{B}_n. Write PTnBn(t)P_{T_n}^{\mathcal{B}_n}(t) and QTnBn(t)Q_{T_n}^{\mathcal{B}_n}(t) for its equivariant Kazhdan–Lusztig and inverse Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials, respectively. For coefficient sequences, use the specialization W=BnW=\mathcal{B}_n, G=B2nG=\mathcal{B}_{2n}, and H=Bn×BnH=\mathcal{B}_n\times\mathcal{B}_n in Definition~; equivalently, set

Pn,k(X,Y)=[tk]Pn(X,Y;t),Qn,k(X,Y)=[tk]Qn(X,Y;t),\mathsf{P}_{n,k}(X,Y)=[t^k]\mathsf{P}_n(X,Y;t),\qquad \mathsf{Q}_{n,k}(X,Y)=[t^k]\mathsf{Q}_n(X,Y;t),

with Pn,k=Qn,k=0\mathsf{P}_{n,k}=\mathsf{Q}_{n,k}=0 for k>⌊n/2⌋k>\lfloor n/2\rfloor. Strong induced log-concavity conjecture. For every n≥0n\ge 0, the coefficient sequences of PTnBn(t)P_{T_n}^{\mathcal{B}_n}(t) and QTnBn(t)Q_{T_n}^{\mathcal{B}_n}(t) are strongly induced log-concave: for all 1≤i≤j1\le i\le j, the differences

Pn,i(X,Y)Pn,j(X,Y)−Pn,i−1(X,Y)Pn,j+1(X,Y)\mathsf{P}_{n,i}(X,Y)\mathsf{P}_{n,j}(X,Y)-\mathsf{P}_{n,i-1}(X,Y)\mathsf{P}_{n,j+1}(X,Y)

and the analogous differences with P\mathsf{P} replaced by Q\mathsf{Q} are Schur positive in Λ[X,Y]\Lambda[X,Y]. This conjectures simultaneous strong induced log-concavity for both equivariant polynomial sequences. The property strengthens ordinary induced log-concavity, which is the case i=ji=j, and is not automatic from honesty of the individual coefficient representations. Its resolution would establish a refined positivity phenomenon for equivariant Kazhdan–Lusztig theory of thagomizer matroids with hyperoctahedral symmetry.

References

Primary source

Matthew H. Y. Xie, Philip B. Zhang and Michael X. X. Zhong, “Equivariant Kazhdan–Lusztig Polynomials of Thagomizer Matroids with a Hyperoctahedral Group Action”, arXiv:2602.10646 (2026).

Additional references

7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2601.17314, arXiv:2511.05676, arXiv:2104.00715, arXiv:1611.07474, arXiv:0806.3392, arXiv:0708.2341.

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