Foulkes' plethysm inequality conjecture

Let aλ(d[n])a_\lambda(d[n]) denote the plethysm coefficient indexed by a partition λnd\lambda\vdash nd. Foulkes' conjecture. If d>nd>n, then

aλ(d[n])aλ(n[d])a_\lambda(d[n])\geq a_\lambda(n[d])

for all λnd\lambda\vdash nd.

This is a fundamental comparison problem for plethysm coefficients. The source gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Greta Panova, “Computational Complexity in Algebraic Combinatorics”, arXiv:2306.17511 (2023).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2305.02553.

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