Conjectural skew Littlewood–Richardson rule for Schur Q-functions

Let λ,μ,σ,τ\lambda,\mu,\sigma,\tau be partitions and fix a tableau TT of shape τ\tau. For skew tableaux, write S|S^-| for the number of entries in SS^-, and let SS+SS^-*S^+*S denote their product under the tableau operation *.

Conjectural skew Littlewood–Richardson rule. The product of skew Schur QQ-functions should satisfy

Qμ/λQτ/σ=(1)SQμ+/λ,Q_{\mu/\lambda}\cdot Q_{\tau/\sigma}=\sum (-1)^{|S^-|}Q_{\mu^+/\lambda^-},

where the sum is over triples (S,S+,S)(S^-,S^+,S) of skew tableaux of respective shapes (λ/λ)(\lambda/\lambda^-), μ+/μ\mu^+/\mu, and σ\sigma such that SS+S\textscspTS^-*S^+*S\equiv_{\textsc{sp}}T.

This conjecture is a reformulation of the preceding skew Littlewood–Richardson theorem, replacing the shifted jeu-de-taquin equivalence by Serrano's shifted plactic equivalence. It gives a direct combinatorial rule for products of skew Schur QQ-functions, while its status is not resolved in the supplied source context.

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Thomas Lam, Aaron Lauve and Frank Sottile, “Skew Littlewood-Richardson rules from Hopf algebras”, arXiv:0908.3714 (2009).

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