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Evacuation of rectangular standard Young tableaux corresponds to reflection of $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ webs

Combinatorics 2025-10-28 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

Web graphs form a family of planar directed graphs with boundary that can be used to model quantum sln\mathfrak{sl}_n-invariant vectors. Standard Young tableaux on an n×kn \times k rectangle naturally index a basis for sln\mathfrak{sl}_n web graphs. We prove that evacuation of the tableau TT corresponds to reflection of the associated web graph wTw_T up to equivalence under a specific set of edge-flip relations. This extends a result of Patrias and Pechenik for the cases n=2,3n=2,3 and mirrors analogous results about rotation of web graphs corresponding to promotion of tableau by Peterson-Pylyavskyy-Rhoades for n=3n=3 and Gaetz-Pechenik-Pfannerer-Striker-Swanson for n=4n=4. We use an intermediate object called a multicolored noncrossing matching, which is closely related to the notion of strandings recently introduced by Russell and the fourth author.

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@article{arxiv.2510.21989,
  title  = {Evacuation of rectangular standard Young tableaux corresponds to reflection of $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ webs},
  author = {Lucas Adams Cowan and Ronja Eilfort and Kerry Seekamp and Julianna Tymoczko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.21989},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages, 16 figures