The leading-term conjecture for the Möbius inversion of matroid topological zeta functions

Let MM be a matroid of rank rr, let YM(s)Y_M(s) denote the Möbius inversion of its topological zeta function, and let B(M)\mathcal{B}(M) denote the set of bases of MM.

Leading-term conjecture. The Taylor expansion of YM(s)Y_M(s) at s=0s=0 satisfies

YM(s)=(1)rB(M)sr+O(sr+1).Y_M(s)=(-1)^r\lvert\mathcal{B}(M)\rvert s^r+O(s^{r+1}).

The source proposes this as a stronger conjecture that implies the truncation invariance conjecture. If true, it would describe the first nonzero Taylor term of the Möbius-inverted topological zeta function in terms of the rank and number of bases of the matroid.

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Dawit Mengesha, Robert Miranda and Brian Sun, “Topological Zeta Functions of Matroids: Operations and Computations”, arXiv:2605.07077 (2026).

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