Sokal's Hankel-total positivity conjecture for GKP row-generating polynomials

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Let Pn(x;μ)P_n(x;\bm{\mu}) be the row-generating polynomials of the Graham–Knuth–Patashnik recurrence, with parameters μ=(α,β,γ,α,β,γ)\bm{\mu}=(\alpha,\beta,\gamma,\alpha',\beta',\gamma') treated as indeterminates. Thus the coefficientwise partial order is taken in the seven variables x,α,β,γ,α,β,γx,\alpha,\beta,\gamma,\alpha',\beta',\gamma' on Z[x,μ]{\mathbb Z}[x,\bm{\mu}]. A sequence (an)n0(a_n)_{n\geq 0} is Hankel-totally positive when every minor of its Hankel matrix (ai+j)i,j0(a_{i+j})_{i,j\geq 0} is nonnegative in this order. Sokal's conjecture. The sequence (Pn(x;μ))n0(P_n(x;\bm{\mu}))_{n\geq 0} of row-generating polynomials of the GKP recurrence is coefficientwise Hankel-totally positive, jointly in all seven indeterminates xx and α,β,γ,α,β,γ\alpha,\beta,\gamma,\alpha',\beta',\gamma'. This conjecture concerns total positivity of the Hankel matrix formed from the GKP row-generating polynomials and remains open.

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Primary source

Jesús Salas, “Log-concavity and log-convexity in the theory of the Graham–Knuth–Patashnik recurrences”, arXiv:2607.04217 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2202.03793.

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