Generalised Foulkes conjecture

Let a,b,c,dNa,b,c,d\in\mathbb{N} satisfy ab=cdab=cd and a=min(a,b,c,d)a=\min(a,b,c,d). Write UVU\leqslant V when UU is isomorphic to a subrepresentation of VV. Generalised Foulkes conjecture.

SymbSymaCNSymdSymcCN.\operatorname{Sym}^b\operatorname{Sym}^a\mathbb{C}^N\leqslant \operatorname{Sym}^d\operatorname{Sym}^c\mathbb{C}^N.

This four-parameter generalisation is attributed in the source to Vessenes and is presented as a conjectural representation-theoretic strengthening of Foulkes's conjecture. The paper proves cases under additional divisibility conditions, while the unrestricted statement remains open in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Moritz Gangl, Álvaro Gutiérrez and Michał Szwej, “On the generalised Foulkes conjecture for SL_2(C) under divisibility conditions”, arXiv:2507.06220 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1708.02995.

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