Monomial positivity conjecture for the Jack super nabla operator on elementary functions

Let n1n\geq 1. For partitions π,μ,νn\pi,\mu,\nu\vdash n, define the coefficient fμ,νπ(α)f^\pi_{\mu,\nu}(\alpha) by

(p,q)eπ(p)=μ,νnfμ,νπ(α)mμ(p)mν(q),\nabla(\boldsymbol{p},\boldsymbol{q}) e_\pi(\boldsymbol{p})=\sum_{\mu,\nu\vdash n}f^\pi_{\mu,\nu}(\alpha)m_\mu(\boldsymbol{p})m_\nu(\boldsymbol{q}),

where eπe_\pi denotes the elementary symmetric function. Monomial positivity conjecture. For all such π,μ,ν\pi,\mu,\nu, one has

fμ,νπ(α)N[α].f^\pi_{\mu,\nu}(\alpha)\in\mathbb{N}[\alpha].

This is one of the positivity questions for the Jack super nabla operator on symmetric-function bases, tested computationally for n9n\leq 9. The conjecture asks for positivity in the unshifted parameter α\alpha and is motivated by analogous positivity phenomena for related bases.

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Primary source

Houcine Ben Dali, “A formula for the Jack super nabla operator”, arXiv:2509.18625 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1411.3307, arXiv:0802.0448.

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