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Coincidences among skew Schur functions

Combinatorics 2014-01-30 v4

Abstract

New sufficient conditions and necessary conditions are developed for two skew diagrams to give rise to the same skew Schur function. The sufficient conditions come from a variety of new operations related to ribbons (also known as border strips or rim hooks). The necessary conditions relate to the extent of overlap among the rows or among the columns of the skew diagram.

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@article{arxiv.math/0602634,
  title  = {Coincidences among skew Schur functions},
  author = {Victor Reiner and Kristin M. Shaw and Stephanie van Willigenburg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0602634},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

33 pages; fixes incorrect proof of Corollary 6.3 on irreducibility of skew Schur functions associated to connected skew diagrams

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