Explicit Schubert-product map commuting with the word-deletion operator

Let M\mathcal M and RW\mathcal{RW} be the colored shuffled-word and reduced-word sets, and let ψ:MRW\psi:\mathcal M\to\mathcal{RW} be a map whose linear extension makes the diagram in Proposition commute. Let ξ\xi be the operator on words that removes the first letter.

Commuting-map conjecture. There exists a map ψ\psi satisfying Proposition such that

ψ,ξ=ξ,ψ.\psi\\,\xi=\xi\\,\psi.

Such a map would provide a combinatorial realization of Schubert structure-constant positivity; the conjecture strengthens the required properties of the map from Proposition.

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Andrew Hardt and David Wallach, “When do Schubert polynomial products stabilize?”, arXiv:2412.06976 (2025).

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