Lascoux positivity for characters of normal square root crystals

Let mZ>0m\in\mathbb Z_{>0}, let CRPDm,n\mathcal C\subseteq\mathsf{RPD}_{m,n} be a gln\sqrt{\mathfrak{gl}_n}-crystal, and let wSnw\in S_n. Write

ch(Cw)=cCwxwt(c).\mathsf{ch}(\mathcal C_w)=\sum_{c\in\mathcal C_w}x^{\mathrm{wt}(c)}.

A polynomial is Lascoux positive if it is an N\mathbb N-linear combination of Lascoux polynomials Lα\mathfrak L_\alpha. Lascoux-positivity conjecture. For any gln\sqrt{\mathfrak{gl}_n}-crystal CRPDm,n\mathcal C\subseteq\mathsf{RPD}_{m,n}, the polynomial ch(Cw)\mathsf{ch}(\mathcal C_w) is Lascoux positive.

This conjecture proposes a positivity property for the character of the subsets Cw\mathcal C_w associated with normal square root crystals. The supplied text gives no resolution or partial status beyond presenting it as a conjectural motivation.

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Primary source

Eric Marberg, Kam Hung Tong and Tianyi Yu, “Grothendieck positivity for normal square root crystals”, arXiv:2501.16640 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2410.08038, arXiv:1806.03802.

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