The equivariant Schur Lam–Postnikov–Pylyavskyy inequality

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Let λ\lambda and μ\mu be partitions, let xk=(x1,,xk)\mathbf x_k=(x_1,\ldots,x_k), and let sλ(xk;y)s_\lambda(\mathbf x_k;\mathbf y) denote the double Schur polynomial. Write λμ\lambda\vee\mu and λμ\lambda\wedge\mu for the join and meet of the two partitions, and interpret sequiv\leq_s^{\mathrm{equiv}} as the equivariant Schur-positivity order. Equivariant Schur LPP inequality.

sλ(xk;y)sμ(xk;y)sequivsλμ(xk;y)sλμ(xk;y).s_\lambda(\mathbf x_k; \mathbf y)s_\mu(\mathbf x_k; \mathbf y) \leq_s^{\mathrm{equiv}} s_{\lambda\vee\mu}(\mathbf x_k; \mathbf y)s_{\lambda\wedge\mu}(\mathbf x_k; \mathbf y).

At y=0\mathbf y=\mathbf0, this specializes to the classical LPP inequality. It has been checked for all Grassmannians in SnS_n with n7n\leq7 and randomly for Grassmannians in S10S_{10}, but remains open in general.

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Peter L. Guo, Mingyang Kang and Jiaji Liu, “A Lam–Postnikov–Pylyavskyy inequality for hybrid Grothendieck polynomials”, arXiv:2607.03116 (2026).

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