Conjectural classification of near-equality for ribbon Schur functions
Let and be ribbon Schur functions indexed by compositions and , and let be the Schur function indexed by the partition . The notation denotes consecutive parts equal to , and reversal means reversing the parts of a composition. Suppose that
Near-equality classification conjecture. Up to reversal of and , the compositions , and partition are one of the five cases of Theorem 1.1, one of the five cases of its corollary, or one of the following six cases:
In particular, must have the form , equivalently . This conjecture seeks a complete classification of when the difference of two ribbon Schur functions is a single Schur function; the five earlier cases are referenced through the paper's main theorem and corollary, while the six displayed cases extend the classification in general.
References
Primary source
Foster Tom, “Classifying the near-equality of ribbon Schur functions”, arXiv:1810.00533 (2019).
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