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We give a Littlewood-Richardson type rule for expanding the product of a row-strict quasisymmetric Schur function and a symmetric Schur function in terms of row-strict quasisymmetric Schur functions. This expansion follows from several new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-09 Jeffrey Ferreira

We prove that a conjecture of Fomin, Fulton, Li, and Poon, associated to ordered pairs of partitions, holds for many infinite families of such pairs. We also show that the bounded height case can be reduced to checking that the conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Francois Bergeron , Riccardo Biagioli , Mercedes H. Rosas

Majorization inequalities have a long history, going back to Maclaurin and Newton. They were recently studied for several families of symmetric functions, including by Cuttler--Greene--Skandera (2011), Sra (2016), Khare--Tao (2021),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Hong Chen , Apoorva Khare , Siddhartha Sahi

The Littlewood-Richardson (LR) coefficient counts among many other things the LR tableaux of a given shape and a given content. We prove, that the number of LR tableaux weakly increases if one adds to the shape and the content the shape and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-24 Christian Gutschwager

In previous work with Mikhail Khovanov and Aaron Lauda we introduced two odd analogues of the Schur functions: one via the combinatorics of Young tableaux (odd Kostka numbers) and one via the odd symmetrization operator. In this paper we…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-11-17 Alexander P. Ellis

Our results can be viewed as applications of algebraic combinatorics in random matrix theory. These applications are motivated by the predictive power of random matrix theory for the statistical behavior of the celebrated Riemann…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Helen Riedtmann

We give a simple bijective proof of associativity and commutativity of the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients or the hive ring. Specifically, we establish existence a polarized polymatroidal discretely concave functions on the tetrahedron…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. Danilov , G. Koshevoy

The saturation property for Littlewood--Richardson coefficients was established by Knutson and Tao in 1999. In 2004, Kirillov conjectured that the saturation property extends to Schubert coefficients. We disprove this conjecture in a strong…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Igor Pak , Colleen Robichaux

In the open problem session of the FPSAC'03, R.P.Stanley gave an open problem. The purpose of this paper is to give a proof of this open problem. At the end of this paper we present certain corollaries involving the Big Schur functions and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masao Ishikawa

The connection between the generating functions of various sets of tableaux and the appropriate families of quasisymmetric functions is a significant tool to give a direct analytical proof of some advanced bijective results and provide new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Ekaterina A. Vassilieva

We argue that Jack Littlewood-Richardson coefficients $g_{\mu\nu}^{\lambda}(\alpha)$ are specialisations of certain novel polynomials. For the triple of partitions $(\mu,\nu,\lambda)=(21,21,321)$, we prove the corresponding polynomial is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Ryan Mickler

Let $\Lambda$ be the space of symmetric functions and $V_k$ be the subspace spanned by the modified Schur functions $\{S_\lambda[X/(1-t)]\}_{\lambda_1\leq k}$. We introduce a new family of symmetric polynomials,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Lapointe , A. Lascoux , J. Morse

We study k-Schur functions characterized by k-tableaux, proving combinatorial properties such as a k-Pieri rule and a k-conjugation. This new approach relies on developing the theory of k-tableaux, and includes the introduction of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luc Lapointe , Jennifer Morse

Stanley has studied a symmetric function generalization X_G of the chromatic polynomial of a graph G. The innocent-looking Stanley-Stembridge Poset Chain Conjecture states that the expansion of X_G in terms of elementary symmetric functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Timothy Y. Chow

Goulden and Jackson (1996) introduced, using Jack symmetric functions, some multivariate generating series $\psi(x, y, z; t, 1+\beta)$ that might be interpreted as a continuous deformation of the generating series of rooted hypermaps. They…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Maciej Dołęga , Valentin Féray

This article is devoted to the computation of Jack connection coefficients, a generalization of the connection coefficients of two classical commutative subalgebras of the group algebra of the symmetric group: the class algebra and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Ekaterina A. Vassilieva

Introduced by Goulden and Jackson in their 1996 paper, the matchings-Jack conjecture and the hypermap-Jack conjecture (also known as the $b$-conjecture) are two major open questions relating Jack symmetric functions, the representation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Andrei L. Kanunnikov , Valentin V. Promyslov , Ekaterina A. Vassilieva

We relate noncommutative Littlewood-Richardson coefficients of Bessenrodt-Luoto-van Willigenburg to classical Littlewood-Richardson coefficients via crystal reflection operators. A key role is played by the combinatorics of frank words.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Edward Richmond , Vasu Tewari

Cohen-Lenstra heuristics for Jacobians of random graphs give rise to random partitions. We connect these random partitions to the Hall-Littlewood polynomials of symmetric function theory, and use this connection to give combinatorial proofs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Jason Fulman

We give new bounds and asymptotic estimates for Kronecker and Littlewood--Richardson coefficients. Notably, we resolve Stanley's questions on the shape of partitions attaining the largest Kronecker and Littlewood--Richardson coefficients.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Igor Pak , Greta Panova , Damir Yeliussizov