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 T∈SSYT⁡(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.

References

Primary source

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

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