Crystals, regularisation and the Mullineux map (Q2102172)

Summary: The Mullineux map is a combinatorial function on partitions which describes the effect of tensoring a simple module for the symmetric group in characteristic \(p\) with the one-dimensional sign representation. It can also be interpreted as a signed isomorphism between crystal graphs for \(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}_p\). We give a new combinatorial description of the Mullineux map by expressing this crystal isomorphism as a composition of isomorphisms between different crystals. These isomorphisms are defined in terms of new generalised regularisation maps introduced by \textit{D. M. Berdasco} [``Generalised regularisation maps on partitions'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:2105.05550}]. We then given two applications of our new realisation of the Mullineux map, by providing purely combinatorial proofs of a conjecture of Lyle relating the Mullineux map with regularisation, and a theorem of \textit{R. Paget} [Commun. Algebra 34, No. 9, 3245--3253 (2006; Zbl 1142.20001)] describing the Mullineux map in RoCK blocks of symmetric groups.