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

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

∇(p,q)eπ(p)=∑μ,ν⊢nfμ,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 n≤9n\leq 9. The conjecture asks for positivity in the unshifted parameter α\alpha and is motivated by analogous positivity phenomena for related bases.

References

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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