On the poset and asymptotics of Tesler matrices (Q1753099)

Summary: Tesler matrices are certain integral matrices counted by the Kostant partition function and have appeared recently in \textit{J. Haglund}'s study of diagonal harmonics [The \(q,t\)-Catalan numbers and the space of diagonal harmonics. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (2008; Zbl 1142.05074)]. In 2014, Drew Armstrong defined a poset on such matrices and conjectured that the characteristic polynomial of this poset is a power of \(q-1\). We use a method of \textit{J. Hallam} and \textit{B. Sagan} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 136, 39--63 (2015; Zbl 1319.05143)] to prove a stronger version of this conjecture for posets of a certain class of generalized Tesler matrices. We also study bounds for the number of Tesler matrices and how they compare to the number of parking functions, the dimension of the space of diagonal harmonics.