Abdesselam's log-concavity conjecture for subgroup-counting polynomials

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Let gℓ(n)g_\ell(n) denote the number of subgroups of index nn in Zℓ\mathbb{Z}^\ell, and write

Pngℓ(X)=∑k=0npngℓ(k)Xk.P_n^{g_\ell}(X)=\sum_{k=0}^n p_n^{g_\ell}(k)X^k.

Call a sequence (ak)k∈N(a_k)_{k\in\mathbb{N}} log-concave at k≥1k\geq 1 when ak2≥ak−1ak+1a_k^2\geq a_{k-1}a_{k+1}. Abdesselam's conjecture. For every ℓ,n∈N\ell,n\in\mathbb{N}, the sequence (pngℓ(k))k∈N(p_n^{g_\ell}(k))_{k\in\mathbb{N}} is log-concave at each k≥1k\geq 1. This generalizes the Heim–Neuhauser challenge, since g2=σg_2=\sigma; the source supplies no resolution status.

References

Primary source

Johann Stumpenhusen, “On the Log-Concavity of the D'Arcais Polynomials for Normalised Functions”, arXiv:2607.14961 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2309.09407.

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