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Recent progress in algebraic combinatorics
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Abstract:

We survey three recent breakthroughs in algebraic combinatorics. The first is the proof by Knutson and Tao, and later Derksen and Weyman, of the saturation conjecture for Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. The second is the proof of the $n!$ and $(n+1)^{n-1}$ conjectures by Haiman. The final breakthrough is the determination by Baik, Deift, and Johansson of the limiting behavior of the length of the longest increasing subsequence of a random permutation.
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  • Richard P. Stanley
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
  • MR Author ID: 166285
  • Email: rstan@math.mit.edu
  • Received by editor(s): October 23, 2000
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 4, 2002
  • Published electronically: October 11, 2002
  • Additional Notes: Partially supported by NSF grant #DMS-9988459
  • © Copyright 2002 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 55-68
  • MSC (2000): Primary 05E99; Secondary 05E05, 14C05, 15A18, 60C05
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-02-00966-7
  • MathSciNet review: 1943133