Sokal's Hankel-total positivity conjecture for GKP row-generating polynomials
Sokal's Hankel-total positivity conjecture for GKP row-generating polynomials
Let be the row-generating polynomials of the Graham–Knuth–Patashnik recurrence, with parameters treated as indeterminates. Thus the coefficientwise partial order is taken in the seven variables on . A sequence is Hankel-totally positive when every minor of its Hankel matrix is nonnegative in this order. Sokal's conjecture. The sequence of row-generating polynomials of the GKP recurrence is coefficientwise Hankel-totally positive, jointly in all seven indeterminates and . 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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