Involutions conjecture for statistics on three-row standard Young tableaux

Let SYT(n3)\operatorname{SYT}(n^3) denote the set of standard Young tableaux of rectangular shape (n,n,n)(n,n,n), and let br,sb_{r,s} denote the tableau statistics used in the source.

Involutions conjecture. There exist involutions α,δ:SYT(n3)SYT(n3)\alpha,\delta:\operatorname{SYT}(n^3)\to\operatorname{SYT}(n^3) with the following properties:

  • α\alpha swaps b1,1b2,1b_{1,1}\leftrightarrow b_{2,1}, b1,2b2,3b_{1,2}\leftrightarrow b_{2,3}, b1,3b2,2b_{1,3}\leftrightarrow b_{2,2} and b3,2b3,3b_{3,2}\leftrightarrow b_{3,3}, and it preserves b3,1b_{3,1};
  • δ\delta swaps b2,1b2,31b_{2,1}\leftrightarrow b_{2,3}-1, and it preserves b1,2b_{1,2}, b2,2b_{2,2} and b3,2b_{3,2}.

This conjecture is motivated by computational evidence for stronger symmetry in the joint distribution of the statistics br,sb_{r,s} on SYT(n3)\operatorname{SYT}(n^3). The supplied text does not report a proof or disproof, so the conjecture remains open.

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Primary source

Sergi Elizalde, “Symmetry of ascent and descent distributions on rectangular and staircase tableaux”, arXiv:2501.07573 (2025).

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