The Newton polytope of the Kronecker product

We study the Kronecker product of two Schur functions \(s_\lambda\ast s_\mu\), defined as the image of the characteristic map of the product of two \(S_n\) irreducible characters. We prove special cases of a conjecture of Monical-Tokcan-Yong that its monomial expansion has a saturated Newton polytope. Our proofs employ the Horn inequalities for positivity of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients and imply necessary conditions for the positivity of Kronecker coefficients.Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05E10, 20C30Keywords: Kronecker coefficients, saturated Newton polytope, symmetric group representations

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Combinatorial Theory
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2025-09-12
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https://doi.org/10.5070/c65365558
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Mathematics and Applications
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The Newton polytope of the Kronecker product

Greta Panova, Chenchen Zhao
Combinatorial Theory
Mathematics and Applications
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The Newton polytope of the Kronecker product

Greta Panova, Chenchen Zhao
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Abstract

We study the Kronecker product of two Schur functions \(s_\lambda\ast s_\mu\), defined as the image of the characteristic map of the product of two \(S_n\) irreducible characters. We prove special cases of a conjecture of Monical-Tokcan-Yong that its monomial expansion has a saturated Newton polytope. Our proofs employ the Horn inequalities for positivity of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients and imply necessary conditions for the positivity of Kronecker coefficients.Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05E10, 20C30Keywords: Kronecker coefficients, saturated Newton polytope, symmetric group representations

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