Cyclic Sieving for Staircase Plane Partitions via Crystals and Electrical Networks
Combinatorics
2026-07-15 v1
Abstract
We prove a cyclic sieving result for the action of promotion on the staircase plane partitions of height two. Our proof has two major algebraic inputs: an interpretation of this promotion action in terms of tensor powers of the spin crystal that was recently studied by Pappe--Pfannerer--Schilling--Simone, and the bush basis of the degree two part of the coordinate ring of the space of electrical networks that was recently introduced by Gao--Lam--Xu. Moreover, we explain how the existence of an electrical canonical basis in all degrees would yield cyclic sieving for promotion of staircase plane partitions of all heights.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.14028,
title = {Cyclic Sieving for Staircase Plane Partitions via Crystals and Electrical Networks},
author = {Sam Hopkins and Jesse Kim and Stephan Pfannerer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.14028},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
23 pages, 8 figures