The signed left Pieri rule for the immaculate basis

Let mm be a nonnegative integer and let α\alpha be a composition. Write Hm{H}_m for the noncommutative complete homogeneous function, Sα{\mathfrak S}_\alpha for the immaculate basis element indexed by α\alpha, and let α|\alpha| denote the size of α\alpha. A collection of compositions β\beta of size α+m|\alpha|+m is called the indexing collection, and sign(α,β)sign(\alpha,\beta) is a statistic on pairs of compositions.

The signed left Pieri rule. The product has the form

HmSα=β(1)sign(α,β)Sβ,{H}_m {\mathfrak S}_\alpha=\sum_\beta(-1)^{sign(\alpha,\beta)}{\mathfrak S}_\beta,

where the sum is over some collection of compositions β\beta of size α+m|\alpha|+m.

This conjecture proposes that left multiplication by a complete homogeneous function is multiplicity free up to signs, in contrast with the positive right Pieri rule. The source does not specify the indexing collection or statistic, and gives no resolution status.

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Chris Berg, Nantel Bergeron, Franco Saliola, Luis Serrano and Mike Zabrocki, “A lift of the Schur and Hall-Littlewood bases to non-commutative symmetric functions”, arXiv:1208.5191 (2013).

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