A new Littlewood-Richardson rule for Schur $P$-functions
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Abstract:
A new description of shifted Littlewood-Richardson coefficients is given in terms of semistandard decomposition tableaux which were recently introduced by L. Serrano. We also show that the set of semistandard decomposition tableaux is invariant under the action of Lascoux-Schützenberger involution, providing a combinatorial proof of the symmetry of Schur $P$-functions. We find counterexamples to the conjecture made by L. Serrano on skew Schur $P$-functions, proving the falsity of the conjecture. Many combinatorial properties of semistandard decomposition tableaux are also shown.References
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Additional Information
- Soojin Cho
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Ajou University, Suwon 443-749, Korea
- Email: chosj@ajou.ac.kr
- Received by editor(s): March 29, 2011
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 13, 2011
- Published electronically: September 13, 2012
- Additional Notes: This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2011-0012398)
This work was done while the author was visiting the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. - © Copyright 2012
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- MSC (2010): Primary 05E05; Secondary 05E10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2012-05653-4
- MathSciNet review: 2995379