Positivity of immaculate structure constants for a partition factor

Let α\alpha be a composition and let λ\lambda be a partition. Let Sα{\mathfrak S}_\alpha and Sλ{\mathfrak S}_\lambda be the corresponding immaculate basis elements, and define coefficients cα,λβ{\bf c}_{\alpha,\lambda}^\beta by

SαSλ=βcα,λβSβ.{\mathfrak S}_\alpha {\mathfrak S}_\lambda=\sum_\beta {\bf c}_{\alpha,\lambda}^\beta {\mathfrak S}_\beta.

Immaculate product positivity conjecture. The coefficients cα,λβ{\bf c}_{\alpha,\lambda}^\beta are non-negative integers.

This asserts positivity for products in which the second factor is indexed by a partition. The statement is attributed in the source to BBSSZ2; no resolution status is supplied.

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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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