Atom-positivity conjecture for row division of key polynomials

Let α\alpha be a composition, and let κα\kappa_\alpha denote the key polynomial indexed by α\alpha. Let rowDivk\operatorname{\mathtt{rowDiv}}_k be the row operator. A polynomial is atom-positive if it is a non-negative integer linear combination of atom polynomials AβA_\beta.

Atom-positivity conjecture. The row operator applied to a key polynomial is atom-positive:

rowDivk(κα)=βcα,βAβ,cα,βZ0.\operatorname{\mathtt{rowDiv}}_k(\kappa_\alpha)=\sum_\beta c_{\alpha,\beta}A_\beta,\qquad c_{\alpha,\beta}\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}.

The source gives an example whose key-polynomial expansion becomes atom-positive, providing evidence for the claim. No proof or resolution is supplied in the given text.

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Per Alexandersson and Lilan Dai, “Partition division maps, symmetric functions and positivity”, arXiv:2604.25440 (2026).

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