Stanley’s zrank conjecture on skew partitions

Chen, William; Yang, Arthur

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04342-0

Stanley’s zrank conjecture on skew partitions
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Abstract:

We present an affirmative answer to Stanley’s zrank conjecture, namely, the zrank and the rank are equal for any skew partition. We show that certain classes of restricted Cauchy matrices are nonsingular and furthermore, the signs are determined by the number of zero entries. We also give a characterization of the rank in terms of the Giambelli-type matrices of the corresponding skew Schur functions. Our approach also applies to the factorial Cauchy matrices and the inverse binomial coefficient matrices.

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