Mulmuley's polyhedral conjecture for stretched plethysm coefficients

For partitions μ\mu, ν\nu, and λ\lambda, define the stretched plethysm generating function

A~μ[ν]λ(t)=n0anμ[ν]nλtn.\tilde{\mathsf{A}}_{\mu[\nu]}^\lambda(t) = \sum_{n\geqslant0} \mathsf{a}_{n\mu[\nu]}^{n\lambda} t^n.

Mulmuley's conjecture. The generating function A~μ[ν]λ(t)\tilde{\mathsf{A}}_{\mu[\nu]}^\lambda(t) is the Ehrhart series of a polytope.

Mulmuley conjectured this after rationality of the generating function had been proved. The supplied text states that Kahle and Michałek disproved the conjecture, so the asserted polyhedral realization does not hold in general.

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Primary source

Álvaro Gutiérrez, Rosa Orellana, Franco Saliola, Anne Schilling and Mike Zabrocki, “A geometric and generating function approach to plethysm”, arXiv:2511.02649 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1404.0653.

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