Trees, forests, and total positivity. I: q-trees and q-forests matrices

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Abstract: We consider matrices with entries that are polynomials in q arising from natural q-generalisations of two well-known formulas that count: forests on n vertices with k components; and trees on n+1 vertices where k children of the root are smaller than the root. We give a combinatorial interpretation of the corresponding statistic on forests and trees and show, via the construction of various planar networks and the Lindstr"om-Gessel-Viennot lemma, that these matrices are coefficientwise totally positive. We also exhibit generalisations of the entries of these matrices to polynomials in emph{eight} indeterminates, and present some conjectures concerning the coefficientwise Hankel-total positivity of their row-generating polynomials.



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