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Support Equalities Among Ribbon Schur Functions

Combinatorics 2018-10-23 v2

Abstract

In 2007, McNamara proved that two skew shapes can have the same Schur support only if they have the same number of k×k\times \ell rectangles as subdiagrams. This implies that two ribbons can have the same Schur support only if one is obtained by permuting row lengths of the other. We present substantial progress towards classifying when a permutation πSm\pi \in S_m of row lengths of a ribbon α\alpha produces a ribbon απ\alpha_{\pi} with the same Schur support as α\alpha; when this occurs for all πSm\pi \in S_m, we say that α\alpha has "full equivalence class." Our main results include a sufficient condition for a ribbon α\alpha to have full equivalence class. Additionally, we prove a separate necessary condition, which we conjecture to be sufficient.

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@article{arxiv.1709.03011,
  title  = {Support Equalities Among Ribbon Schur Functions},
  author = {Marisa Gaetz and Will Hardt and Shruthi Sridhar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.03011},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

23 pages (including references), 16 figures

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