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Complete positivity for the Feigenbaum–Grabner–Hardin family f_w

Prove that all forms f_w in the family introduced by Feigenbaum, Grabner, and Hardin (as in their Proposition 5.1) are completely positive, i.e., have nonnegative Fourier coefficients.

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Background

In the context of the 24‑dimensional inequalities, the paper identifies its form F as a constant multiple of f_{16} from the Feigenbaum–Grabner–Hardin family. Those authors proved complete positivity for f_w up to weight 94 and conjectured it for all members of the family.

The present paper gives an algebraic proof of positivity for the specific case tied to f_{16}, but the general conjecture for all f_w remains open.

References

The authors already proved that the functions $f_w$ are completely positive for $w \leq 94$ Remark 6.3, and they conjectured that all the forms in the family are completely positive Conjecture 1.

Algebraic proof of modular form inequalities for optimal sphere packings (2406.14659 - Lee, 20 Jun 2024) in Section 6.1, “Easy” inequality (Remark following Corollary 6.2)