Garsia--Remmel q-rook numbers are not always unimodal
Abstract
We show by an explicit example that the Garsia--Remmel q-rook numbers of Ferrers boards do not all have unimodal sequences of coefficients. This resolves in the negative a question from 1986 by the aforementioned authors.
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