The skew Hall–Littlewood rule for multiplication by a Schur function

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Let λ\lambda and μ\mu be partitions with μ⊆λ\mu \subseteq \lambda, and let r≥0r\geq 0. For a skew shape α/β\alpha/\beta, write sk⁡(α/β)\operatorname{sk}(\alpha/\beta) for the coefficient defined in the source. A vertical strip is a skew shape with at most one cell in each row. The skew Hall–Littlewood–Schur conjecture.

Pλ/μ⋅sr=∑(−1)∣μ/μ−∣sk⁡(λ+/λ)Pλ+/μ−,P_{\lambda/\mu}\cdot s_r=\sum (-1)^{|\mu/\mu^-|}\operatorname{sk}(\lambda^+/\lambda)P_{\lambda^+/\mu^-},

where the sum is over all λ+⊇λ\lambda^+\supseteq\lambda and μ−⊆μ\mu^-\subseteq\mu such that μ/μ−\mu/\mu^- is a vertical strip and ∣λ+/λ∣+∣μ/μ−∣=r|\lambda^+/\lambda|+|\mu/\mu^-|=r.

This is one of the conjectured skew analogues of the Hall–Littlewood Pieri rules; its specialization at λ=μ=∅\lambda=\mu=\emptyset agrees with a known Hall–Littlewood identity. The source does not provide a resolution.

References

Primary source

Matjaz Konvalinka, “Skew quantum Murnaghan-Nakayama rule”, arXiv:1101.5250 (2011).

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