English

Robinson-Schensted correspondence for unit interval orders

Combinatorics 2020-05-15 v2

Abstract

The Stanley-Stembridge conjecture associates a symmetric function to each natural unit interval order P\mathcal P. In this paper, we define relations \`a la Knuth on the symmetric group for each P\mathcal P and conjecture that the associated P\mathcal P-Knuth equivalence classes are Schur-positive, refining theorems of Gasharov, Brosnan-Chow, and Guay-Paquet. The resulting equivalence graphs fit into the framework of D graphs studied by Assaf. Furthermore, we conjecture that the Schur expansion is given by column-readings of P\mathcal P-tableaux that occur in the equivalence class. We prove these conjectures for P\mathcal P avoiding two specific suborders by introducing P\mathcal P-analog of Robinson-Schensted insertion, giving an answer to a long standing question of Chow.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2003.12123,
  title  = {Robinson-Schensted correspondence for unit interval orders},
  author = {Dongkwan Kim and Pavlo Pylyavskyy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12123},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

56 pages, 53 figures. v2: added Proposition 4.10 and Theorem 6.1(D) about genuine P-heights

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