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

Let λn\lambda\vdash n with n1n\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=(n1,1),λ=(2,1n2) 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.

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

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