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A combinatorial interpretation for certain plethysm and Kronecker coefficients

Combinatorics 2025-11-05 v1

Abstract

We give explicit positive combinatorial interpretations for the plethysm coefficients sμ[sν],sλ\langle s_\mu[s_\nu], s_\lambda\rangle, when λ\lambda has at most two rows, as counting certain marked trees. In the special case μ=(n)\mu=(n), this also yields a combinatorial interpretation for the corresponding rectangular Kronecker coefficient g(λ,(nk),(nk))g(\lambda, (n^k), (n^k)). While it is easy to express these quantities as differences of counting problems in the complexity class FP\mathrm{FP}, putting the problem in #P\#\mathrm{P}, our interpretations give a positive counting formula over explicit marked trees.

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@article{arxiv.2511.02312,
  title  = {A combinatorial interpretation for certain plethysm and Kronecker coefficients},
  author = {Igor Pak and Greta Panova and Joshua P. Swanson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02312},
  year   = {2025}
}

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12 pages

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