English

A bijection between dominant Shi regions and core partitions

Combinatorics 2009-04-22 v1

Abstract

It is well-known that Catalan numbers Cn=1n+1(2nn)C_n = \frac{1}{n+1} \binom{2n}{n} count the number of dominant regions in the Shi arrangement of type AA, and that they also count partitions which are both nn-cores as well as (n+1)(n+1)-cores. These concepts have natural extensions, which we call here the mm-Catalan numbers and mm-Shi arrangement. In this paper, we construct a bijection between dominant regions of the mm-Shi arrangement and partitions which are both nn-cores as well as (mn+1)(mn+1)-cores. The bijection is natural in the sense that it commutes with the action of the affine symmetric group.

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@article{arxiv.0904.3118,
  title  = {A bijection between dominant Shi regions and core partitions},
  author = {Susanna Fishel and Monica Vazirani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.3118},
  year   = {2009}
}
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