Saturated Newton polytope conjecture for Kronecker products of Schur functions

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 mk+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

sλsμ=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 sλsμs_\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.

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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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