Möbius-value conjecture for staircase partition posets

Let λ\lambda be a partition with repeating elements, and let DS(λ){\mathbb D}_{\mathsf{S}}(\lambda) be the associated poset of staircase matrices. Denote its Möbius function by μDS(λ)(x,y)\mu^{{\mathbb D}_{\mathsf{S}}(\lambda)}(x,y) for comparable elements xx and yy. Möbius-value conjecture. For all comparable elements xx and yy in DS(λ){\mathbb D}_{\mathsf{S}}(\lambda), one has μDS(λ)(x,y){1,0,1}\mu^{{\mathbb D}_{\mathsf{S}}(\lambda)}(x,y)\in\{-1,0,1\}. The conjecture has been verified in several specific cases and is important for determining coefficients in the Cauchy identity for staircase matrices; it follows from the shellability conjecture above.

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Anton Khoroshkin and Ievgen Makedonskyi, “Bubble sort and Howe duality for staircase matrices”, arXiv:2502.21184 (2026).

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