Saxl's staircase tensor-square conjecture

For k1k\geq 1, let

δk=(k,k1,,1)\delta_k=(k,k-1,\ldots,1)

be the staircase partition, which has size (k+12)\binom{k+1}{2}. For partitions of this size, g(δk,δk,μ)g(\delta_k,\delta_k,\mu) is the multiplicity of the irreducible S(k+12)S_{\binom{k+1}{2}}-module indexed by μ\mu in the tensor square of the module indexed by δk\delta_k.

Saxl's conjecture.

g(δk,δk,μ)>0g(\delta_k,\delta_k,\mu)>0

for all kk and all μ(k+12)\mu\vdash\binom{k+1}{2}.

This is a concrete proposed choice of the symmetric partition in the tensor square conjecture. Its significance is that the staircase partition is specified uniformly rather than existentially.

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Primary source

Greta Panova, “Complexity and asymptotics of structure constants”, arXiv:2305.02553 (2023).

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