Saturated Newton polytope conjecture for Kronecker products of Schur functions

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For a symmetric function ff, let f(x1,…,xk)f(x_1,\ldots,x_k) denote its specialization obtained by setting xm=0x_m=0 for all m≥k+1m\geq k+1. A polynomial f(x1,…,xk)=∑αcαxαf(x_1,\ldots,x_k)=\sum_{\alpha}c_\alpha x^\alpha has a saturated Newton polytope (SNP) when the points with positive coefficients coincide with the lattice points in their convex hull. For partitions λ\lambda and μ\mu, write

sλ∗sμ=∑νg(λ,μ,ν)sν,s_\lambda*s_\mu=\sum_\nu g(\lambda,\mu,\nu)s_\nu,

where g(λ,μ,ν)g(\lambda,\mu,\nu) are the Kronecker coefficients. Kronecker SNP conjecture. The Kronecker product sλ∗sμs_\lambda*s_\mu has a saturated Newton polytope. This conjecture asks for a saturated Newton polytope property for one of the central products in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. The supplied text gives no resolution evidence for this claim.

References

Primary source

Greta Panova and Chenchen Zhao, “The Newton polytope of the Kronecker product”, arXiv:2311.10276 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1908.11224, arXiv:1906.03646.

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