Sergel's bi-brick-permutation C-expansion conjecture

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Let μ\mu be a partition, and let Π\Pi range over bi-brick permutations. Associate to each Π\Pi a partition statistic μ(Π)\mu(\Pi), a composition statistic α(Π)\alpha(\Pi), and a nonnegative integer statistic stat(Π)stat(\Pi). Let CαC_{\alpha} denote the creation-operator symmetric function indexed by the composition α\alpha. Sergel's conjecture. There is a nonnegative integer stat(Π)stat(\Pi) such that

(1)μl(μ)mμ=μ(Π)=μqstat(Π)Cα(Π),(-1)^{|\mu|-l(\mu)}m_{\mu}=\sum_{\mu(\Pi)=\mu}q^{stat(\Pi)}C_{\alpha(\Pi)},

where μ(Π)\mu(\Pi) and α(Π)\alpha(\Pi) are certain statistics of the bi-brick permutation Π\Pi. If true, this would provide a positive CC-expansion and support the corresponding Schur-positivity conjecture; the supplied text gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Menghao Qu and Guoce Xin, “A parking function interpretation for (-1)^km_2^k1^l”, arXiv:2312.16824 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1804.06037.

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