Differences of Augmented Staircase Skew Schur Functions

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Authors Matthew Morin

Publication date 29 March 2010

Abstract: We define a fat staircase to be a Ferrers diagram corresponding to a partition of the form $(n^{alph{a}_n},{n-1}^{alph{a}_{n-1}},\mathrm{...},1^{alph{a}_1})$, where $alpha=(alph{a}_1,\mathrm{...},alph{a}_n)$ is a composition, or the $180^{c}irc$ rotation of such a diagram. We look at collections of skew diagrams consisting of a fixed fat staircase augmented with all hooks of a given size. Among these diagrams we determine precisely which pairs give a Schur-positive difference. We extend this classification to collections of fat staircases augmented with hook-complements.

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