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Koizumi–Liu Eventual Sign Alternation Conjecture

Koizumi constructs a representable simple rank-66 matroid MM for which Mag⁡(M;q) \operatorname{Mag}(M;q) has a pole of order 44 at q=−1q=-1 but a pole of order 55 at q=iq=i. After writing AM(t)=Mag⁡(M;−t), A_M(t)=\operatorname{Mag}(M;-t), the higher-order pole at t=it=i forces the Taylor coefficients of AM(t)A_M(t) to fail eventual nonnegativity. Consequently, (−1)ℓ[qℓ]Mag⁡(M;q)<0 (-1)^\ell[q^\ell]\operatorname{Mag}(M;q)<0 for infinitely many ℓ\ell. The matroid is representable by twelve vectors in R6\mathbb R^6, so it yields an actual real central hyperplane arrangement and therefore directly disproves Koizumi–Liu's conjecture for real arrangements.

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Occurred: Sep 7, 2026

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Canonical aliases: Koizumi–Liu Eventual Sign Alternation Conjecture · Koizumi–Liu Eventual Sign Alternation

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GPT-5.6 Sol
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GPT-6 Astra
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Junnosuke Koizumi
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Koizumi constructs a representable simple rank-66 matroid MM for which Mag⁡(M;q) \operatorname{Mag}(M;q) has a pole of order 44 at q=−1q=-1 but a pole of order 55 at q=iq=i. After writing AM(t)=Mag⁡(M;−t), A_M(t)=\operatorname{Mag}(M;-t), the higher-order pole at t=it=i forces the Taylor coefficients of AM(t)A_M(t) to fail eventual nonnegativity. Consequently, (−1)ℓ[qℓ]Mag⁡(M;q)<0 (-1)^\ell[q^\ell]\operatorname{Mag}(M;q)<0 for infinitely many ℓ\ell. The matroid is representable by twelve vectors in R6\mathbb R^6, so it yields an actual real central hyperplane arrangement and therefore directly disproves Koizumi–Liu's conjecture for real arrangements. parent of this event

This event attributed to Junnosuke Koizumi

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Koizumi–Liu Eventual Sign Alternation Conjecture evidence for this event

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