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Counterexamples to the 0-1 Conjecture
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by Timothy J. McLarnan and Gregory S. Warrington PDF
Represent. Theory 7 (2003), 181-195 Request permission

Abstract:

For permutations $x$ and $w$, let $\mu (x,w)$ be the coefficient of highest possible degree in the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial $P_{x,w}$. It is well-known that the $\mu (x,w)$ arise as the edge labels of certain graphs encoding the representations of $S_n$. The 0-1 Conjecture states that the $\mu (x,w) \in \{0,1\}$. We present two counterexamples to this conjecture, the first in $S_{16}$, for which $x$ and $w$ are in the same left cell, and the second in $S_{10}$. The proof of the counterexample in $S_{16}$ relies on computer calculations.
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Additional Information
  • Timothy J. McLarnan
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana 47374
  • Email: timm@earlham.edu
  • Gregory S. Warrington
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
  • MR Author ID: 677560
  • Email: warrington@math.umass.edu
  • Received by editor(s): October 1, 2002
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 24, 2003
  • Published electronically: May 7, 2003
  • © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Represent. Theory 7 (2003), 181-195
  • MSC (2000): Primary 05E15; Secondary 20F55
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1088-4165-03-00178-X
  • MathSciNet review: 1973372