Saxl's conjecture for staircase partitions

Let ρm\rho_m be the staircase partition of size n=(m+12)n=\binom{m+1}{2}, and let g(λ,λ,μ)g(\lambda,\lambda,\mu) denote the Kronecker coefficient. Saxl Conjecture. For every partition μn\mu\vdash n, one has

g(ρm,ρm,μ)>0.g(\rho_m,\rho_m,\mu)>0.

This is the staircase-shape specialization of the tensor-square problem for irreducible representations of SnS_n. The source attributes it to Jan Saxl in 2012 and does not indicate a resolution.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Chenchen Zhao, “On the Kronecker product of Schur functions of square shapes”, arXiv:2309.00764 (2023).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1903.07717, arXiv:1704.04425, arXiv:1511.02387.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00764 Jan Saxl (2012), as attributed in the source Pak, Panova, and Vallejo (2013), cited in the source as pak2013kronecker

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