Sundaram's conjecture on tableaux with major index divisible by n

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Let λ⊢n\lambda\vdash n with n≥1n\geq 1, and let aλ,0a_{\lambda,0} denote the number of standard Young tableaux of shape λ\lambda whose major index is congruent to 00 modulo nn. Sundaram's conjecture. For n>1n>1, aλ,0a_{\lambda,0} is positive except in the following cases, when it is zero:

λ=(n−1,1),λ=(2,1n−2) when n is odd,λ=(1n) when n is even.\lambda=(n-1,1),\qquad \lambda=(2,1^{n-2})\text{ when }n\text{ is odd},\qquad \lambda=(1^n)\text{ when }n\text{ is even}.

This conjecture concerns the occurrence of the trivial representation in the restriction of the Specht module SλS^\lambda to the cyclic group generated by an nn-cycle, equivalently the existence of tableaux with the specified modular major index. Its resolution status is not established by the supplied context.

References

Primary source

Joshua P. Swanson, “On the Existence of Tableaux with Given Modular Major Index”, arXiv:1701.04963 (2017).

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