Monotonicity conjecture for plethysm coefficients with a quadratic Schur function

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Let ν\nu, λ\lambda, and λ\lambda be partitions, with ν\nu and λ\lambda arbitrary. Write ν⊔(1)\nu\sqcup(1) for the partition obtained by adjoining a part 11 to ν\nu, and similarly write (λ+(1))⊔(1)(\lambda+(1))\sqcup(1) for the corresponding partition operation. For partitions ν\nu and λ\lambda, let ⟨sν∘s(2)∣sλ⟩\langle s_\nu\circ s_{(2)}\mid s_\lambda\rangle denote the coefficient of sλs_\lambda in the plethysm sν∘s(2)s_\nu\circ s_{(2)}. Monotonicity conjecture. For arbitrary partitions ν\nu and λ\lambda, one has

⟨sν∘s(2)∣sλ⟩⩽⟨sν⊔(1)∘s(2)∣s(λ+(1))⊔(1)⟩.\langle s_\nu\circ s_{(2)}\mid s_\lambda\rangle\leqslant\langle s_{\nu\sqcup(1)}\circ s_{(2)}\mid s_{(\lambda+(1))\sqcup(1)}\rangle.

This proposed monotonicity property concerns plethysm coefficients and is presented as a new property motivated by known monotonicity phenomena in plethysm. Its status is not established in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Christine Bessenrodt, Chris Bowman and Rowena Paget, “The classification of multiplicity-free plethysms of Schur functions”, arXiv:2001.08763 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1101.2523.

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