What is a Young tableau?
Combinatorics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Young tableaux are classical combinatorial objects playing recurring and varied roles in representation theory, algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. This article is a short exposition on Young tableaux, written for the "WHAT IS...?" series of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. It describes some of their properties and applications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0611030,
title = {What is a Young tableau?},
author = {Alexander Yong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0611030},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
A final copy-edited version is to appear in Notices. Amer. Math. Soc