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A Decomposition of Schur functions and an analogue of the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth Algorithm

Combinatorics 2009-04-02 v4

Abstract

We exhibit a weight-preserving bijection between semi-standard Young tableaux and semi-skyline augmented fillings to provide a combinatorial proof that the Schur functions decompose into nonsymmetric functions indexed by compositions. The insertion procedure involved in the proof leads to an analogue of the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth Algorithm for semi-skyline augmented fillings. This procedure commutes with the RSK algorithm, and therefore retains many of its properties.

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@article{arxiv.math/0604430,
  title  = {A Decomposition of Schur functions and an analogue of the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth Algorithm},
  author = {Sarah Mason},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0604430},
  year   = {2009}
}

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24 pages; restructured; see journal for comment on connections to Demazure characters