Bergeron–Garsia–Haiman–Tesler signed Schur-positivity conjecture for nabla of monomial symmetric functions

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Let nn be a positive integer, and let mumu and λ\lambda be partitions of nn. Let mμm_\mu be the monomial symmetric function, sλs_\lambda the Schur function, and \nabla the Bergeron–Garsia nabla operator on symmetric functions. Bergeron–Garsia–Haiman–Tesler's conjecture. For any partitions μ,λn\mu,\lambda\vdash n,

(1)μ(μ)mμ,sλN[q,t].(-1)^{|\mu|-\ell(\mu)}\left\langle \nabla m_\mu,s_\lambda\right\rangle\in\mathbb{N}[q,t].

The paper proves this conjecture, together with the stronger statement obtained by replacing \nabla with r\nabla^r for every integer r1r\geq 1.

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Dun Qiu and Minhao Zhang, “The Schur positivity of m_μ”, arXiv:2607.00940 (2026).

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