Nonnegative symmetric decomposition conjecture for fixed-point-free involution Eulerian polynomials
Let be the set of fixed-point-free involutions in , and let count those with descents. Define
Using the symmetric expansion
Nonnegative decomposition conjecture. For and , the coefficients are nonnegative integers.
The coefficients are given by explicit alternating sums and are shown to grow with for each fixed , but the stated nonnegativity for all and remains unproved in the source.
References
Primary source
Victor J. W. Guo and Jiang Zeng, “The Eulerian Distribution on Involutions is Indeed Unimodal”, arXiv:math/0504195 (2005).
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