Lascoux–Leclerc–Thibon's Schur-positivity conjecture for ribbon-tableau functions

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Let Gλ(n)(q,x)\mathcal G^{(n)}_\lambda(q,x) be the symmetric functions arising from ribbon tableaux and Fock-space representations of the quantum affine algebra Uq(sl^n)U_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}_n). For a partition λ\lambda and integers 1≤i≤n1\leq i\leq n, define

λ[i,n]=(λi,λi+n,λi+2n,…).\lambda^{[i,n]}=(\lambda_i,\lambda_{i+n},\lambda_{i+2n},\ldots).

For symmetric functions ff and gg, f≥sgf\geq_s g means that f−gf-g is Schur nonnegative. Lascoux–Leclerc–Thibon's conjecture. For integers 1≤m≤n1\leq m\leq n and a partition λ\lambda,

∏i=1nsλ[i,n]≥s∏i=1msλ[i,m].\prod_{i=1}^n s_{\lambda^{[i,n]}}\geq_s\prod_{i=1}^m s_{\lambda^{[i,m]}}.

The claim is the q=1q=1 reformulation of the Lascoux–Leclerc–Thibon conjecture for the family Gλ(n)(q,x)\mathcal G^{(n)}_\lambda(q,x). The source does not specify a resolution status.

References

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Thomas Lam, Alexander Postnikov and Pavlo Pylyavskyy, “Schur positivity and Schur log-concavity”, arXiv:math/0502446 (2005).

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