English

Knuth relations, tableaux and MV-cycles

Representation Theory 2012-10-05 v1

Abstract

We give a geometric interpretation of the Knuth equivalence relations in terms of the affine Gra{\ss} mann variety. The Young tableaux are seen as sequences of coweights, called galleries. We show that to any gallery corresponds a Mirkovi\'c-Vilonen cycle and that two galleries are equivalent if, and only if, their associated MV cycles are equal. Words are naturally identified to some galleries. So, as a corollary, we obtain that two words are Knuth equivalent if, and only if, their associated MV cycles are equal.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1210.1308,
  title  = {Knuth relations, tableaux and MV-cycles},
  author = {Stéphane Gaussent and Peter Littelmann and An Hoa Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.1308},
  year   = {2012}
}
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