Baugher's integral identity for the Morse-index coefficient

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Let mm be the complex dimension, let m≤q≤2mm\leq q\leq 2m, and let Y2m−qY_{2m-q}, Δ(λ)\Delta(\lambda), Δ(ξ)\Delta(\xi) and the integration variables be as in the source's preceding definitions. Baugher's conjecture. The coefficient β2q(m)\beta_{2q}(m) is given by

β2q(m)=(−i)m(m−1)/24π2m∏j=1m−1j!∫Y2m−q∫R⋯∫RΔ(λ)Δ(ξ)∏j=1m∣λj∣ei⟨λ,ξ⟩J(ξ) dξ1⋯dξm dλ,\beta_{2q}(m)=\frac{(-i)^{m(m-1)/2}}{4\pi^{2m}\prod_{j=1}^{m-1}j!}\int_{Y_{2m-q}}\int_{\mathbb R}\cdots\int_{\mathbb R}\Delta(\lambda)\Delta(\xi)\prod_{j=1}^m|\lambda_j|e^{i\langle\lambda,\xi\rangle}\mathcal{J}(\xi)\,d\xi_1\cdots d\xi_m\,d\lambda,

where

J(ξ)=4(m+1)(m+2)(m+3)(1−i2∑jξj)2∏j≤k[1+i2(ξj+ξk)].\mathcal{J}(\xi)=\frac{4}{(m+1)(m+2)(m+3)\left(1-\frac{i}{2}\sum_j\xi_j\right)^2\prod_{j\leq k}\left[1+\frac{i}{2}(\xi_j+\xi_k)\right]}.

The identity was conjectured from symbolic computations and is intended to imply positivity of β2q(m)\beta_{2q}(m); its general validity remains open.

References

Primary source

Michael R. Douglas, Bernard Shiffman and Steve Zelditch, “Critical points and supersymmetric vacua, II: Asymptotics and extremal metrics”, arXiv:math/0406089 (2005).

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