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Positivity of H_{P,rk} for parabolic-support posets

Prove that, for every parabolic-support poset P associated with a finite Coxeter group, the polynomial H_{P,rk}(q,t) appearing in the decomposition ∑_{n≥0} Z_{P,rk}([n+1]_q) t^n = H_{P,rk}(q,t) / ∏_{ℓ=0}^{H} (1 - q^{ℓ} t) has non-negative integer coefficients, where rk is the rank function on P and H is its maximum value.

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Background

Section 5 develops a positivity criterion for the numerator H_{P,h}(q,t) of the generating series Z_{P,h}(t) = ∑{n≥0} Z{P,h}([n+1]q) tn, showing that if a bounded, graded poset P admits an R-labelling, then H{P,rk} has non-negative coefficients.

The authors note that several classical bounded posets (e.g., noncrossing partition lattices, shard-intersection orders, and intersection lattices of hyperplane arrangements) satisfy this criterion and hence have non-negative H_{P,rk}.

They then consider parabolic-support posets associated with finite Coxeter groups: every interval in these posets is shellable and upper-semimodular (hence admits an R-labelling), but the full posets are not bounded, so the established positivity criterion does not apply. Empirically, positivity appears to hold for these posets, leading to the stated open problem.

References

Positivity of H_{P,rk} seems nevertheless to hold for the parabolic-support posets. This remains to be proved and explained.

On a q-analogue of the Zeta polynomial of posets (2402.11979 - Chapoton, 19 Feb 2024) in Section 5 (Positivity properties), paragraph on parabolic-support posets