Schur positivity conjecture for skew modified Hall–Littlewood functions

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Let λ\lambda and μ\mu be partitions, and let H~λ/μ(x;t)\widetilde{H}_{\lambda/\mu}(x;t) denote the skew modified Hall–Littlewood function defined by

⟨H~λ/μ,P~ν⟩:=⟨H~λ,P~μP~ν⟩.\left\langle \widetilde{H}_{\lambda/\mu},\widetilde{P}_\nu\right\rangle:=\left\langle \widetilde{H}_\lambda,\widetilde{P}_\mu\widetilde{P}_\nu\right\rangle.

Writing its Schur expansion as

H~λ/μ(x;t)=∑νaλμν(t)sν,\widetilde{H}_{\lambda/\mu}(x;t)=\sum_\nu a^\nu_{\lambda\mu}(t)s_\nu,

Schur positivity conjecture. The coefficients aλμν(t)a^\nu_{\lambda\mu}(t) are nonnegative integer polynomials in tt.

This conjecture asserts Schur positivity with coefficientwise positivity in the parameter tt for skew modified Hall–Littlewood functions; the supplied text does not indicate whether it has been proved or refuted.

References

Primary source

Samrith Ram, “Enumerating matrices with prescribed entries in an adjoint orbit”, arXiv:2606.27497 (2026).

Additional references

27 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2604.00245, arXiv:2502.09072, arXiv:2408.15111, arXiv:2408.13127, arXiv:2312.11766, arXiv:2312.16824, arXiv:2305.12007, arXiv:2304.08365, arXiv:2211.01092, arXiv:2205.05408, arXiv:2112.09799, arXiv:2112.06619, and 14 more.

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