The losing-hook stack conjecture

Let λ\lambda be a losing partition and let Γr,c\Gamma_{r,c} be a losing hook. Write

λ∗=Γr,c⊲λ\lambda^*=\Gamma_{r,c}\lhd\lambda

when the stack operation ⊲\lhd is defined. Losing-hook stack conjecture. If λ∗=Γr,c⊲λ\lambda^*=\Gamma_{r,c}\lhd\lambda is defined, then λ∗\lambda^* is a P\mathcal P-position. The conjecture would imply the stated proposition about stacked hooks and motivate further consequences for stacks of odd hooks; it remains open in the source.

References

Primary source

Ina Bašić, Eric Gottlieb and Matjaž Krnc, “CRIM: A Natural Game on Integer Partitions”, arXiv:2606.16828 (2026).

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