Fourfold product stabilization conjecture for Schur functions

Let α1α2α3α40\alpha_1\ge\alpha_2\ge\alpha_3\ge\alpha_4\ge 0 and let λ1,λ2,λ3,λ4\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\lambda_3,\lambda_4 be number partitions. For each ii, write (n+αi,λi)(n+\alpha_i,\lambda_i) for the partition obtained by adjoining n+αin+\alpha_i to λi\lambda_i, and let sμs_\mu denote the Schur function indexed by a partition μ\mu. The operators Δmλ\Delta_m^\lambda are the difference operators defined on the corresponding sequences of symmetric functions.

Fourfold product stabilization conjecture.

Δ3(4,4,4)Δ2(3,3,2)Δ(4)Δ(3,1)(Δ(2,2))2(Δ(2,1,1))2Δ(1,1,1,1)(s(n+α1,λ1)s(n+α2,λ2)s(n+α3,λ3)s(n+α4,λ4))=0\Delta_3^{(4,4,4)}\Delta_2^{(3,3,2)}\Delta^{(4)}\Delta^{(3,1)}(\Delta^{(2,2)})^2(\Delta^{(2,1,1)})^2\Delta^{(1,1,1,1)}\bigl(s_{(n+\alpha_1,\lambda_1)}s_{(n+\alpha_2,\lambda_2)}s_{(n+\alpha_3,\lambda_3)}s_{(n+\alpha_4,\lambda_4)}\bigr)=0

for sufficiently large nn. Moreover, the multiset {Δ3(4,4,4),Δ2(3,3,2),Δ(4),Δ(3,1),Δ(2,2),Δ(2,2),Δ(2,1,1),Δ(2,1,1),Δ(1,1,1,1)}\{\Delta_3^{(4,4,4)},\Delta_2^{(3,3,2)},\Delta^{(4)},\Delta^{(3,1)},\Delta^{(2,2)},\Delta^{(2,2)},\Delta^{(2,1,1)},\Delta^{(2,1,1)},\Delta^{(1,1,1,1)}\} is minimal: the sequence is not eventually zero if any one of the difference operators is removed.

The conjecture extends the proved stabilization results for products of two and three Schur functions. The authors explain that their methods support the fourfold case, but a complete proof would require handling a massive number of cases.

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Primary source

Artur Rapp, “Products of stabilizing representations”, arXiv:1904.11743 (2019).

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