Nonnegativity conjecture for double Schubert structure constants

Let u,v,wu,v,w be permutations, and define the coefficients cuvw(y;z)c_{uv}^w(y;z) by

Su(x;y)Sv(x;z)=wScuvw(y;z)Sw(x;y).\operatorname{\mathfrak{S}}_u(x;y)\operatorname{\mathfrak{S}}_v(x;z)=\sum_{w\in S_\infty}c_{uv}^w(y;z)\operatorname{\mathfrak{S}}_w(x;y).

Nonnegativity conjecture. For all u,v,wu,v,w, cuvw(y;z)c_{uv}^w(y;z) is a polynomial in the differences yizjy_i-z_j with nonnegative integer coefficients.

The conjecture generalizes positivity results for factorial Schur functions and specializes at y=zy=z to known equivariant positivity statements. It has been computationally verified for u,vS5u,v\in S_5, but remains open in general; related specializations and geometric cases are known.

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Primary source

Matthew J. Samuel, “A Molev-Sagan type formula for double Schubert polynomials”, arXiv:2401.11060 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1910.08872.

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