Stronger Newell-Littlewood saturation conjecture

Let Par{\sf Par} denote the set of partitions, let cα,βμc_{\alpha,\beta}^{\mu} be Littlewood–Richardson coefficients, and let Nλ,μ,νN_{\lambda,\mu,\nu} be Newell-Littlewood numbers. Assume the parity hypothesis

λ+μ+ν0(mod2).|\lambda|+|\mu|+|\nu|\equiv 0\pmod 2.

Stronger Newell-Littlewood saturation conjecture. If Nkμ,kν,kλ>0N_{k\mu,k\nu,k\lambda}>0, then there exist partitions α,β,γ\alpha,\beta,\gamma such that

ckα,kβkμckα,kγkνckβ,kγkλ>0.c_{k\alpha,k\beta}^{k\mu}c_{k\alpha,k\gamma}^{k\nu}c_{k\beta,k\gamma}^{k\lambda}>0.

The source states that this conjecture is equivalent to Newell-Littlewood saturation, via the Newell-Littlewood formula and Littlewood–Richardson saturation, but gives no general resolution.

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Primary source

Shiliang Gao, Gidon Orelowitz and Alexander Yong, “Newell-Littlewood numbers”, arXiv:2005.09012 (2020).

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