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We formulate a series of conjectures on the stable tensor product of irreducible representations of symmetric groups, which are closely related to the reduced Kronecker coefficients. These conjectures are certain generalizations of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Tao Gui

The problem of decomposing the Kronecker product of $S_n$ characters is one of the last major open problems in the ordinary representation theory of the symmetric group $S_n$. Here we prove upper and lower polynomial bounds for the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-09 Amitai Regev

We give new bounds and asymptotic estimates on the largest Kronecker and induced multiplicities of finite groups. The results apply to large simple groups of Lie type and other groups with few conjugacy classes.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Igor Pak , Greta Panova , Damir Yeliussizov

We look at the asymptotic behavior of the coefficients of the $q$-binomial coefficients (or Gaussian polynomials) $\binom{a+k}{k}_q$, when $k$ is fixed. We give a number of results in this direction, some of which involve Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Richard P. Stanley , Fabrizio Zanello

We consider Vinberg $\theta$-groups associated to a cyclic quiver on $k$ nodes. Let $K$ be the product of the general linear groups associated to each node. Then $K$ acts naturally on $\oplus \text{Hom}(V_i, V_{i+1})$ and by Vinberg's…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Andrew Frohmader , Alexander Heaton

We find lower bounds on the rank of a "real" vector bundle over an involutive space, such that "real" vector bundles of higher rank have a trivial summand and such that a stable isomorphism for such bundles implies ordinary isomorphism. We…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Malkhaz Bakuradze , Ralf Meyer

The symmetric difference of the $q$-binomial coefficients $F_{n,k}(q)={n+k\brack k}-q^{n}{n+k-2\brack k-2}$ was introduced by Reiner and Stanton. They proved that $F_{n,k}(q)$ is symmetric and unimodal for $k \geq 2$ and $n$ even by using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-15 William Y. C. Chen , Ivy D. D. Jia

We prove that the computation of the Kronecker coefficients of the symmetric group is contained in the complexity class #BQP. This improves a recent result of Bravyi, Chowdhury, Gosset, Havlicek, and Zhu. We use only the quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Christian Ikenmeyer , Sathyawageeswar Subramanian

The q-binomial coefficients were assumed to be unimodal as early as the 1850's, but it remained unproven until Sylvester's 1878 proof using invariant theory. In 1982, Proctor gave an "elementary" proof using linear algebra. Finally, in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Bryan Ek

We prove that in the geometric complexity theory program the vanishing of rectangular Kronecker coefficients cannot be used to prove superpolynomial determinantal complexity lower bounds for the permanent polynomial. Moreover, we prove the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Christian Ikenmeyer , Greta Panova

A family of symmetric functions $\tilde{s}_\lambda$ was introduced in [OZ], and independently in [AS]. The $\tilde{s}_\lambda$ encode many stability properties of representations of symmetric groups (e.g. when multiplied, the structure…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Christopher Ryba

In this paper we compute the coefficients of the reliability polynomial of a consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$:$F$ system, in Bernstein basis, using the generalized Pascal coefficients. Based on well-known combinatorial properties of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Vlad-Florin Drăgoi , Simon R. Cowell , Valeriu Beiu

We introduce and study the notion of conic stability of multivariate complex polynomials in $\mathbb{C}[z_1,\ldots, z_n]$, which naturally generalizes the stability of multivariate polynomials. In particular, we generalize Borcea's and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Thorsten Jörgens , Thorsten Theobald

We propose a new approach to study plethysm coefficients by using the Schur-Weyl duality between the symmetric group and the partition algebra. This allows us to explain the stability properties of plethysm and Kronecker coefficients in a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Chris Bowman , Rowena Paget

In 1878, Sylvester proved Cayley's Conjecture that the coefficients of the Gaussian $q$-binomial coefficients are unimodal. In 1990, O'Hara famously discovered a constructive combinatorial proof, and in 2013, Pak and Panova proved the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Ken Ono

In 2013, Pak and Panova proved the strict unimodality property of $q$-binomial coefficients $\binom{\ell+m}{m}_q$ (as polynomials in $q$) based on the combinatorics of Young tableaux and the semigroup property of Kronecker coefficients.…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Christoph Koutschan , Ali K. Uncu , Elaine Wong

Partition functions arise in statistical physics and probability theory as the normalizing constant of Gibbs measures and in combinatorics and graph theory as graph polynomials. For instance the partition functions of the hard-core model…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Ewan Davies , Matthew Jenssen , Will Perkins , Barnaby Roberts

This note is motivated by an old result of Kronecker on monic polynomials with integer coefficients having all their roots in the unit disc. We call such polynomials Kronecker polynomials for short. Let $k(n)$ denote the number of Kronecker…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Pantelis A. Damianou

We give formulae for computing Kronecker coefficients occurring in the expansion of $s_{\mu}*s_{\nu}$, where both $\mu$ and $\nu$ are nearly rectangular, and have smallest parts equal to either 1 or 2. In particular, we study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-24 Vasu V. Tewari

We obtain an explicit upper bound on the size of the coefficients of the elliptic modular polynomials $\Phi_N$ for any $N\geq1$. These polynomials vanish at pairs of $j$-invariants of elliptic curves linked by cyclic isogenies of degree…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Florian Breuer , Fabien Pazuki