Lam's strengthened square-free positivity conjecture

Let λ\lambda be a partition, let Jλ(u)\mathfrak{J}_\lambda(\mathbf{u}) be the associated noncommutative Schur function, and let IL,3I_{\mathrm{L},\le 3} and IA,3I_{\mathrm{A},3} be the ideals defined in the source. For a reverse semistandard tableau TRSST(λ;N)T\in\operatorname{RSST}(\lambda;N), let sqread(T)\operatorname{sqread}(T) denote its square-reading word, and let usqread(T)\mathbf{u}_{\operatorname{sqread}(T)} be the corresponding noncommutative monomial.

Lam's strengthened square-free positivity conjecture. For every partition λ\lambda, Jλ(u)\mathfrak{J}_\lambda(\mathbf{u}) is Z\mathbb{Z}-monomial positive modulo IL,3IA,3I_{\mathrm{L},\le 3}\cap I_{\mathrm{A},3}, with monomial expansion

Jλ(u)TRSST(λ;N)usqread(T)(modIL,3IA,3).\mathfrak{J}_\lambda(\mathbf{u})\equiv\sum_{T\in\operatorname{RSST}(\lambda;N)}\mathbf{u}_{\operatorname{sqread}(T)}\pmod{I_{\mathrm{L},\le 3}\cap I_{\mathrm{A},3}}.

This is presented as a strengthening of a theorem giving the same square-reading expansion modulo IL,3I_{\mathrm{L},\le 3}, and as a slight variant of a conjecture in the cited work of Lam and collaborators. The source does not report a resolution.

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Primary source

Jonah Blasiak and Sergey Fomin, “Noncommutative Schur functions, switchboards, and Schur positivity”, arXiv:1510.00657 (2016).

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