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The problem of deciding the positivity of Kronecker coefficients and Saxl conjecture

Representation Theory 2025-11-27 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

Given an positive integer kk, let n:=(k+12)n:=\binom{k+1}{2}. In 2012, during a talk at UCLA, Jan Saxl conjectured that all irreducible representations of the symmetric group SnS_n occur in the decomposition of the tensor square of the irreducible representation corresponding to the staircase partition. In this paper, we investigate two useful methods to obtain some irreducible representations that occur in this decomposition. Our main tolls are the semi-group property for Kronecker coefficients and generalized blocks of symmetric groups.

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@article{arxiv.2511.03484,
  title  = {The problem of deciding the positivity of Kronecker coefficients and Saxl conjecture},
  author = {Mahdi Ebrahimi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.03484},
  year   = {2025}
}