Cuspidal ribbon tableaux in affine type A (Q6042815)

In this paper, the authors classify and construct all associated cuspidal and semicuspidal skew shapes for any convex preorder on the set of positive roots of affine type A. These combinatorial objects correspond to cuspidal and semicuspidal skew Specht modules for the Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebra of affine type A. The authors show that every skew shape has a unique ordered tiling by cuspidal ribbons. This tiling data provides an upper bound, in the bilexicographic order on Kostant partitions, for labels of simple factors of Specht modules.