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Bounded Littlewood identity related to alternating sign matrices

Combinatorics 2024-12-18 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

An identity that is reminiscent of the Littlewood identity plays a fundamental role in recent proofs of the facts that alternating sign triangles are equinumerous with totally symmetric self-complementary plane partitions and that alternating sign trapezoids are equinumerous with holey cyclically symmetric lozenge tilings of a hexagon. We establish a bounded version of a generalization of this identity. Further, we provide combinatorial interpretations of both sides of the identity. The ultimate goal would be to construct a combinatorial proof of this identity (possibly via an appropriate variant of the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence) and its unbounded version as this would improve the understanding of the relation between alternating sign trapezoids and plane partition objects.

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@article{arxiv.2301.00175,
  title  = {Bounded Littlewood identity related to alternating sign matrices},
  author = {Ilse Fischer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.00175},
  year   = {2024}
}

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