Jack fundamental quasisymmetric expansion conjecture

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Let nn be a positive integer, let μ\mu be a partition of size nn, let SnS_n be the symmetric group, and let QA(x)Q_A(x) denote the fundamental quasisymmetric function indexed by a set A⊆{1,…,n−1}A\subseteq\{1,\ldots,n-1\}. Let des(π)des(\pi) denote the number of descents of π∈Sn\pi\in S_n. Jack quasisymmetric expansion conjecture. There exists a set-valued function σ\sigma depending on π\pi, τ\tau, and μ\mu, with image in {1,…,n−1}\{1,\ldots,n-1\}, such that

J~μ(α)(X)=∑π,τ∈Sn(α+n−1−des(π)n)Qσ(π,τ,μ)(x).\tilde{J}_\mu^{(\alpha)}(X)=\sum_{\pi,\tau\in S_n}{\alpha+n-1-des(\pi)\choose n}Q_{\sigma(\pi,\tau,\mu)}(x).

The conjecture generalizes the known expansions for μ=(n)\mu=(n) and μ=(1n)\mu=(1^n); the source also explains that, assuming Schur positivity in this basis, existence of some such σ\sigma follows, but an explicit construction remains unavailable in general.

References

Primary source

Per Alexandersson, James Haglund and George Wang, “On the Schur expansion of Jack polynomials”, arXiv:1805.00511 (2018).

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