Ballantine–Beck–Feigon–Maurischat's unimodality conjecture for binary partition numerators

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For binary partitions, let numB(n,x)\operatorname{num}_{\mathcal B}(n,x) denote the binary numerator. Ballantine–Beck–Feigon–Maurischat's binary unimodality conjecture. For every n>5n>5, the polynomial numB(n,x)\operatorname{num}_{\mathcal B}(n,x) is unimodal. The supplied text explains that an earlier log-concavity formulation fails in small cases and that the intended log-concavity version excludes n=4,5n=4,5 and remains open for n>5n>5; the stated unimodality conjecture itself is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Evan Chen, Ken Ono and Jujian Zhang, “Reciprocals of Partition Polynomials”, arXiv:2605.21718 (2026).

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