Ribbon-tableau positivity conjecture for H-functions

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Let Hμ(k)(X;q)H^{(k)}_\mu(X;q) be the symmetric functions defined from kk-ribbon tableaux, where kk is the level, and expand each Hμ(k)H^{(k)}_\mu in the Schur basis.

Positivity conjecture. The coefficients in these Schur-basis expansions are polynomials with nonnegative integer coefficients.

The conjecture proposes a Schur-positivity property for the ribbon-tableau HH-functions; the source presents it as supported by strong experimental evidence, with no proof supplied there.

References

Primary source

Alain Lascoux, Bernard Leclerc and Jean-Yves Thibon, “Ribbon Tableaux, Hall-Littlewood Functions, Quantum Affine Algebras and Unipotent Varieties”, arXiv:q-alg/9512031 (1995).

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