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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