Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B86b (2026), 70 pp.

Chudamani Pranesachar Anil Kumar

On the Positivity Conjecture for Finite Abelian p-Groups

Abstract. For a partition λ = (λ1ρ1, λ2ρ2, λ3ρ3, ..., λkρk) and its associated finite R-module Aλ = ⨁i=1k (RλiR)ρi, where R is a discrete valuation ring, with maximal ideal generated by a uniformizing element π, with at least three elements, having finite residue field k = RRFq, the number of orbits of pairs
nλ(q) = | Gλ \ (Aλ × Aλ) |
for the diagonal action of the automorphism group Gλ = Aut(Aλ), is a polynomial in q with integer coefficients. The positivity conjecture states that these coefficients are in fact non-negative. In this article, we prove this conjecture.


Received: June 28, 2021. Revised: November 10, 2023. Accepted: November 21, 2023.

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