New hook-content formulas for strict partitions (Q2358797)

The hook-length statistic is an important tool in the study of partitions, algebraic combinatorics, and representation theory. In the paper under review, the authors introduce a difference operator for functions defined on strict partitions, i.e. partitions \((\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\ldots,\lambda_{\ell})\) with \(\lambda_i>\lambda_{i+1}\) for all \(i=1,\ldots,\ell-1\). This difference operator is an analog of the difference operator for ordinary partitions introduced by the authors in [``Difference operators for partitions and some applications'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1508.00772}] and is used to derive several new hook-content formulas for strict partitions as well as a polynomial property for a summation involving the hook length and the content statistics.