Unimodality of $q$-Fibonomial coefficients for small cases
Combinatorics
2026-05-14 v1
Abstract
Bergeron--Ceballos--K\"ustner introduced the -Fibonomial coefficients , gave a combinatorial interpretation of the -Fibonomial coefficients via a weighted path-domino tiling model, and conjectured that these polynomials are unimodal. We prove the conjecture for . For the case, we give a combinatorial proof of both unimodality and symmetry by defining a nearly symmetric saturated chain decomposition on the set of tilings. For all three cases, we give an algebraic proof. Finally, for the case, we establish a more general unimodality result for certain products of -analogs and propose several related conjectures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.12822,
title = {Unimodality of $q$-Fibonomial coefficients for small cases},
author = {Brendan B. Connelly and Ezekiel Ito and Thomas C. Martinez and Olha Shevchenko and Kacey Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.12822},
year = {2026}
}