Concavity conjecture for the maximum m-field of the symmetric group

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Let nn be fixed. For a partition of the symmetric group Sn\mathbb{S}_n into mm parts, let F(n,m)F(n,m) denote the maximum attainable sum of intensities, and define

f(m)=F(n,m).f(m)=F(n,m).

Concavity conjecture. For any fixed nn, the function f(m)=F(n,m)f(m)=F(n,m) is concave.

The conjecture is proposed as a way to understand the growth of F(n,m)F(n,m) beyond the polynomial range, where the paper's upper bounds are far from the available lower bound. No proof is given.

References

Primary source

Artur Czumaj, George Kontogeorgiou and Mike Paterson, “Haystack Hunting Hints and Locker Room Communication”, arXiv:2008.11448 (2021).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2004–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0407260.

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