Stanley-sum rule conjecture for Jack Littlewood–Richardson coefficients

For partitions μ,ν,λ\mu,\nu,\lambda, let SDμνλ\mathsf{SD}_{\mu\nu}^{\lambda} be the set of Stanley diagrams and let a Stanley sum be an integer linear combination of these diagrams. Stanley-sum rule conjecture. For every triple of partitions, there exists a Stanley sum

gμνλ=DSDμνλcDD,cDZ,\bm g_{\mu\nu}^{\lambda}=\sum_{\bm D\in\mathsf{SD}_{\mu\nu}^{\lambda}}c_{\bm D}\bm D,\qquad c_{\bm D}\in\mathbb Z,

whose evaluation gives the corresponding Jack Littlewood–Richardson coefficient:

gμνλ=[gμνλ].g_{\mu\nu}^{\lambda}=[\bm g_{\mu\nu}^{\lambda}].

Such a Stanley sum is called a rule for gμνλg_{\mu\nu}^{\lambda}. It generalizes the strong Stanley conjecture from Littlewood–Richardson multiplicity one to arbitrary triples; the source attributes this generalization to earlier work and gives no resolution evidence.

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Ryan Mickler, “Hidden Structure of Jack Littlewood-Richardson Coefficients”, arXiv:2605.10608 (2026).

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