Monotonicity conjecture for plethysm coefficients with a quadratic Schur function

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 sνs(2)sλ\langle s_\nu\circ s_{(2)}\mid s_\lambda\rangle denote the coefficient of sλs_\lambda in the plethysm sνs(2)s_\nu\circ s_{(2)}. Monotonicity conjecture. For arbitrary partitions ν\nu and λ\lambda, one has

sνs(2)sλsν(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.

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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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