Spin variant of Saxl's conjecture for symmetric groups

Let P(n)P(n) denote the set of partitions of nn, and let D+(n)D^+(n) denote the relevant set of strict partitions indexing the spin characters under consideration. For λD+(n)\lambda\in D^+(n), write λ\langle\lambda\rangle for the corresponding spin character, and write [μ][\mu] for the irreducible character of SnS_n labelled by μP(n)\mu\in P(n). Spin variant of Saxl's conjecture. For any n4n\geq 4, n5n\neq 5, there is a spin character λ\langle\lambda\rangle, with λD+(n)\lambda\in D^+(n), whose square λ2\langle\lambda\rangle^2 contains all [μ][\mu], with μP(n)\mu\in P(n). Computations with GAP motivate this conjecture; the source gives evidence from character-square calculations, while its general validity remains open.

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Christine Bessenrodt, “Critical classes, Kronecker products of spin characters, and the Saxl conjecture”, arXiv:1704.00707 (2017).

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