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Errata for Fulton's "Young tableaux"
Fulton's Young tableaux is one of the best texts on the subject, one which I
often recommend and cite for reference. Unlike Fulton/Lang and
Fulton/Harris,
it is neither an early-dawn draft nor a ...
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Hives for other root systems? [duplicate]
Littlewood-Richardson coefficients $c^\lambda_{\mu\nu}$ have numerous combinatorial interpretations, including the hive model by Knutson and Tao, see here. For other root systems, there are also ...
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Scalar products on symmetric functions behaving like the Macdonald scalar product
The Macdonald symmetric functions (or Macdonald polynomials)
$P_\lambda(x)$ are orthogonal with respect to the Macdonald scalar
product
$$ \langle p_\lambda,p_\mu\rangle =
\delta_{\lambda\mu}z_\...
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Expressing symmetric function in power-sum basis
I am trying to prove the following identity
\begin{equation}
\prod_{i=1}^{m}(1-x_{i}z)^{-u}\prod_{j=1}^{n}(1-y_{i}z)^{-v} \prod_{i=1}^{m}\prod_{j=1}^{n}(1-(x_i +y_j)z)^{-w}\\ = \sum_{\lambda, \mu}c_{\...
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Branching rule for Specht modules over Kazhdan-Lusztig basis
Suppose $\lambda\vdash n$ is a partition and $S^\lambda$ is the associated irreducible representation of $S_n$. As we know from the branching rule, we have an isomorphism of $S_{n-1}$ modules
$$S^\...
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Form on symmetric functions and their q,t- analogues
[Notations are as in Macdonald's Symmetric Functions and Hall Polynomials]
The space of symmetric functions $\Lambda_{\mathbb{Q}}$ has a bilinear form defined by $ (p_\lambda, p_\mu)= z_\lambda \...
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Word/Loop in $L(\Lambda)$
Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra, with Chevalley generators $e_i,f_i$ ($i=1,...,n$).
Let $L(\Lambda)$ denote the irreducible module with highest weight $\Lambda$. Let $v$ denote ...
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Smith Normal Form of a Cayley Graph of the Symmetric Group
Let $A_n$ be the adjacency matrix of the Cayley graph $\text{Cay}(S_n,C_n)$ where $C_n \subseteq S_n$ is the conjugacy class of $n$-cycles of the symmetric group $S_n$. Since the generating set of ...
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Frobenius formula
I know two formulas by the name of Frobenius.
The first one computes the number
$$\mathcal{N}(G;C_1,\dotsc,C_k):=|\{(c_1,\dotsc,c_k)\in C_1 \times \cdots \times C_k\:|\:c_1\cdots c_k=1\}|,$$
where $...
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Tabloid Construction of Permutation Representation of Hyperoctahedral Group
For a partition $\lambda \vdash n$, the permutation representation $M^{\lambda}$ of the symmetric group can be constructed in two ways. First, it may be written as the induced representation $M^{\...
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A stronger version of a problem of Kenneth Brown using representations
Let $G$ be a finite group and $\mathcal{L}(G)$ its subgroup lattice. Let $\mu$ be the Möbius function on $\mathcal{L}(G)$.
The reduced Euler characteristic of the order complex of the coset poset $\{ ...
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Counting cosets in the Quotient of Weyl groups
Let $\Sigma=G/P$ be a flag variety of type $A$,i.e. $G=SL_{n+1}$ and is a stabilizer of the partial flag $0 \subset V_{d_1}\subset \cdots\subset V_{d_r}\subset V_{n+1}$ of length $r$. Let $W$ be its ...
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Applications of Representation Theory in Combinatorics
What are the examples of interesting combinatorial identities (e.g. bijection between two sets of combinatorial objects) that can be proved using representation theory, or has some representation ...
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Is there a nice form for the Frobenius characteristic of a border shape character?
Let $\chi^V$ be the character of a border strip Specht module, i.e. a Specht
module for a skew tableau that contains no $2 \times 2$ square. I know that
the Frobenius characteristic of $\chi^V$ is ...
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Generating function for $t$-residues of partitions using Heisenberg + $\hat{sl_t}$ representation theory
Recall that for $t\geq2$, a partition is a $t$-core if none of its hooklengths is divisible by $t$. It is known that the $t$-cores are parametrized by ${\mathbb Z}^{t-1}$. More precisely, let $(n_0,\...
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Question about a proof in Graham and Lehrer's "Cellular algebras"
I'm sorry if this question is too basic for MO. I'm reading a paper by Graham and Lehrer "Cellular algebras" and have trouble understanding one step in a proof of a crucial theorem. I suppose that the ...
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Conjectural identities for Young symmetrizers and Young-Jucys-Murphy elements
The following questions I have found in my own notes from about 3 years ago. Unfortunately, I lost much of the context; I believe I made these conjectures reading Okounkov-Vershik, arXiv:0503040v3, ...
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What is the most general "two in one row for A & in one column for B" theorem?
Let $A$ and $B$ be two Young tableaux, i. e. Young diagrams filled with the numbers $1$, $2$, ..., $n$ for some $n$ (not necessarily the same $n$). (They need not be semistandard.)
(a) (Etingof's ...
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