Wang–Zhang–Zhang's immanant conjectures for cyclic groups

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Let CnC_n be the cyclic group of order nn. For a partition λ\lambda of nn, let Iλ(Cn)\mathcal I_\lambda(C_n) denote the number of formally different monomials occurring in the immanant of the Cayley-table matrix of CnC_n. Write P(Cn)\mathcal P(C_n) and D(Cn)\mathcal D(C_n) for the corresponding quantities for the permanent and determinant, respectively.

Wang–Zhang–Zhang's immanant conjectures.

  1. For any nge3n ge 3, if nn is odd, then
I(n−1,1)(Cn)=I(2,1n−2)(Cn)=0.\mathcal I_{(n-1,1)}(C_n)=\mathcal I_{(2,1^{n-2})}(C_n)=0.
  1. For any nge2n ge 2, if nequiv2(mod4)nequiv 2\pmod 4, then
I(n−1,1)(Cn)=P(Cn),I(2,1n−2)(Cn)=D(Cn).\mathcal I_{(n-1,1)}(C_n)=\mathcal P(C_n),\qquad \mathcal I_{(2,1^{n-2})}(C_n)=\mathcal D(C_n).
  1. For any nge7n ge 7, if nn is odd, then
I(n−2,1,1)(Cn)=P(Cn).\mathcal I_{(n-2,1,1)}(C_n)=\mathcal P(C_n).

These conjectures extend questions about when immanant monomial counts agree with the permanent or determinant counts, and concern the behavior of these quantities for cyclic groups in the odd and 22 modulo 44 cases. The supplied text does not establish their status beyond presenting them as conjectures.

References

Primary source

Xuan Wang and Hanbin Zhang, “On immanants of Cayley tables”, arXiv:2605.05117 (2026).

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