Tropical cyclic rotation agrees with tableau promotion

Let SSYT(k,[n])\operatorname{SSYT}(k,[n]) be the semistandard Young tableaux of rectangular shape, let ρ\rho be the tropical cyclic-rotation map on tableaux, and let pr\operatorname{pr} be promotion, defined by the Bender–Knuth involutions.

Promotion conjecture. For any tableau TSSYT(k,[n])T\in\operatorname{SSYT}(k,[n]) without frozen factors,

ρ(T)=pr(T).\rho(T)=\operatorname{pr}(T).

This conjecture identifies tropical cyclic rotation with the classical promotion operation on tableaux, after frozen factors are removed. The supplied text gives no resolution status.

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James Drummond, Ömer Gürdoğan and Jian-Rong Li, “Tropical symmetries of cluster algebras”, arXiv:2601.19779 (2026).

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