Schur log-concavity and the quantum Pascal triangle
Combinatorics
2025-09-29 v1
Abstract
We say a sequence of symmetric functions is Schur log-concave if is Schur positive for all . We conjecture that a very general class of sequences of Schur functions satisfies this property, and show it for sequences of Schur functions indexed by partitions with growing first part and column. Our findings are related to work of Lam, Postnikov and Pylyavskyy on Schur positivity, and of Butler, Sagan, and the second author on -log-concavity.
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@article{arxiv.2509.22648,
title = {Schur log-concavity and the quantum Pascal triangle},
author = {Álvaro Gutiérrez and Christian Krattenthaler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.22648},
year = {2025}
}
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14 pages, 2 figures