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Is the appearance of Schur functions a coincidence?
The Schur functions are symmetric functions which appear in several different contexts:
The characters of the irreducible representations for the symmetric group (under the characteristic isometry).
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Harmonic flow on the Young lattice
Let me begin with some preliminary concepts: A positive real-valued function $\varphi: P \rightarrow \Bbb{R}_{>0}$ on a locally finite, ranked poset $(P, \trianglelefteq)$ is harmonic if
$\varphi(\...
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A Simple Bijective Proof Of Stanley's Hook-Content Formula for Hook Shapes
this is my first post on math overflow so I hope it goes well. I believe I have a fairly simple bijective proof for Stanley's Hook-Content Formula in the case of hook shapes. I wanted to see if ...