Polynomiality of certain average weights for oscillating tableaux (Q1991413)

Summary: We prove that a family of average weights for oscillating tableaux are polynomials in two variables, namely, the length of the oscillating tableau and the size of the ending partition, which generalizes a result of \textit{S. Hopkins} and \textit{I. Zhang} [ibid. 22, No. 2, Research Paper P2.48, 9 p. (2015; Zbl 1327.05024)]. Several explicit and asymptotic formulas for the average weights are also derived. The main idea in this paper is to translate the study of certain average weights for oscillating tableaux to the study of an operator \(\Psi\) from the set of real coefficient polynomials with two parameters to itself.