Saxl's 2-modular tensor-square conjecture

Let k\Bbbk be a field of characteristic 22, let n=k(k+1)/2n=k(k+1)/2, and let ρ(k)=(k,k1,,2,1)\rho(k)=(k,k-1,\dots,2,1). A partition is 2-regular if no positive part occurs at least twice, and Dk(λ){\bf D}^\Bbbk(\lambda) denotes the corresponding simple kSn\Bbbk\mathfrak{S}_n-module. Saxl's 2-modular conjecture. For every 2-regular partition λ\lambda of nn,

dimk(HomSn(Dk(ρ(k))Dk(ρ(k)),Dk(λ)))>0.\dim_\Bbbk\left(\operatorname{Hom}_{\mathfrak{S}_n}\left({\bf D}^\Bbbk(\rho(k))\otimes {\bf D}^\Bbbk(\rho(k)),{\bf D}^\Bbbk(\lambda)\right)\right)>0.

Equivalently, the tensor square contains all indecomposable projective modules as direct summands with positive multiplicity. This extends the verified complex staircase positivity statement to characteristic 22; the supplied text gives no resolution status.

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C. Bessenrodt, C. Bowman and L. Sutton, “Kronecker positivity and 2-modular representation theory”, arXiv:1903.07717 (2019).

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