The Whitehouse-type lifting conjecture for Lien(2)Lie_n^{(2)}

Let Lien(2)Lie_n^{(2)} denote the relevant SnS_n-module, and let Lien1(2)SnLie_{n-1}^{(2)}\uparrow^{S_n} denote induction from Sn1S_{n-1} to SnS_n. The Whitehouse-type lifting conjecture. The symmetric function p1Lien1(2)Lien(2)p_1Lie_{n-1}^{(2)}-Lie_n^{(2)} is Schur-positive if and only if nn is not a power of 22. Equivalently,

Lien1(2)SnLien(2)Lie_{n-1}^{(2)}\uparrow^{S_n}-Lie_n^{(2)}

is a true SnS_n-module lifting Lien1(2)Lie_{n-1}^{(2)} if and only if nn is not a power of 22. The source reports verification by computation through n=32n=32, but gives no proof or disproof.

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Sheila Sundaram, “Variations on the S_n-module Lie_n”, arXiv:1803.09368 (2020).

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