The spiders $S(4m+2,\,2m,\,1)$ are $e$-positive
Combinatorics
2025-09-03 v3
Abstract
By using the composition method, we establish the -positivity of spiders of the form , which was conjectured by Aliniaeifard, van Willigenburg and Wang. Following the divide-and-conquer strategy, we group one or two -terms that have positive coefficients with each -term that has a negative coefficient, where the compositions are selected to be obtained by rearranging the parts of , and show the positivity of the sum of those coefficients. Our main contribution is an explicit construction of the injection.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.04915,
title = {The spiders $S(4m+2,\,2m,\,1)$ are $e$-positive},
author = {Davion Q. B. Tang and David G. L. Wang and Monica M. Y. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04915},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
18 pages, 4 figure