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The shifted plactic monoid

Combinatorics 2009-01-21 v2

Abstract

We introduce a shifted analog of the plactic monoid of Lascoux and Sch\"utzenberger, the \emph{shifted plactic monoid}. It can be defined in two different ways: via the \emph{shifted Knuth relations}, or using Haiman's mixed insertion. Applications include: a new combinatorial derivation (and a new version of) the shifted Littlewood-Richardson Rule; similar results for the coefficients in the Schur expansion of a Schur PP-function; a shifted counterpart of the Lascoux-Sch\"utzenberger theory of noncommutative Schur functions in plactic variables; a characterization of shifted tableau words; and more.

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@article{arxiv.0811.2057,
  title  = {The shifted plactic monoid},
  author = {Luis Serrano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2057},
  year   = {2009}
}

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32 pages, youngtab.sty required

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