Distinctness conjecture for frayed ribbon Schur Q-functions

Let DD and EE be shifted skew shapes. A frayed ribbon is a shifted near-ribbon containing two squares on the staircase, and let DaD^a denote the antipodal reflection of DD across the northeast-southwest diagonal. Write QDQ_D for the Schur QQ-function associated with DD. Frayed ribbon distinctness conjecture. If DD and EE are frayed ribbons such that QD=QEQ_D=Q_E, then either D=ED=E or D=EaD=E^a. The claim concerns the unresolved equality problem for skew Schur QQ-functions; the paper reports computational and theoretical evidence but does not establish the conjecture.

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Maria Gillespie and Kyle Salois, “Inequality of a class of near-ribbon skew Schur Q-functions”, arXiv:2107.14212 (2021).

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