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Skew Howe duality and random rectangular Young tableaux

Combinatorics 2018-01-30 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

We consider the decomposition into irreducible components of the external power Λp(CmCn)\Lambda^p(\mathbb{C}^m\otimes \mathbb{C}^n) regarded as a GLm×GLn\operatorname{GL}_m\times\operatorname{GL}_n-module. Skew Howe duality implies that the Young diagrams from each pair (λ,μ)(\lambda,\mu) which contributes to this decomposition turn out to be conjugate to each other, i.e.~μ=λ\mu=\lambda'. We show that the Young diagram λ\lambda which corresponds to a randomly selected irreducible component (λ,λ)(\lambda,\lambda') has the same distribution as the Young diagram which consists of the boxes with entries p\leq p of a random Young tableau of rectangular shape with mm rows and nn columns. This observation allows treatment of the asymptotic version of this decomposition in the limit as m,n,pm,n,p\to\infty tend to infinity.

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@article{arxiv.1705.07604,
  title  = {Skew Howe duality and random rectangular Young tableaux},
  author = {Greta Panova and Piotr Śniady},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.07604},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

17 pages. Version 2: change of title, section on bijective proofs improved

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