Non-vanishing of Single, Double, and Triple Schubert Structure Constants

Abstract

The Schubert vanishing problem asks whether the single Schubert coefficients $c_{u,v}^w$ are zero. In this paper, we consider the non-vanishing problems of double Schubert coefficients $c_{u,v}^w(t)$ and triple Schubert coefficients $c_{u,v}^w(t;y)$. We show that the non-vanishing of $c_{u,v}^w(t;y)$ is completely determined by the non-vanishing of single Schubert coefficients. As a byproduct, we obtain the saturation property of the triple Littlewood--Richardson coefficients $c_{\lambda ,\mu }^{\nu }(t;y)$. Moreover, we pose a conjecture asserting that the non-vanishing of $c_{u,v}^w(t)$ is also determined by the non-vanishing of single or triple Schubert coefficients. We prove a one-side inclusion of the conjecture. For the reverse inclusion, we show that the conjecture holds for the following three cases: the Pieri case, the separated descents case, and the inverse Grassmannian case.

24 pages, comments are welcome!