Sturm-unimodality conjecture for refined Narayana polynomials

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Let Wn,k(t)W_{n,k}(t) be the polynomials considered in the paper. A finite sequence of real-rooted polynomials is Sturm-unimodal if it increases by interlacing up to one index and then decreases by reverse interlacing. Sturm-unimodality conjecture. For any fixed n1n\geq 1, the sequence {Wn,k(t)}1kn\{W_{n,k}(t)\}_{1\leq k\leq n} is Sturm-unimodal. This is a stronger interlacing property than coefficient or value unimodality, and remains conjectural in the source.

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Miklós Bóna, Stoyan Dimitrov, Gilbert Labelle, Yifei Li, Joseph Pappe, Andrés R. Vindas-Meléndez and Yan Zhuang, “A combinatorial proof of a symmetry for a refinement of the Narayana numbers”, arXiv:2212.10586 (2025).

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