Positivity results on ribbon Schur function differences

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2008.09.026zbMATH Open1207.05221arXiv0712.2424OpenAlexW1964586680MaRDI QIDQ1024334FDOQ1024334

Stephanie van Willigenburg, Peter R. W. McNamara

Publication date: 17 June 2009

Published in: European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There is considerable current interest in determining when the difference of two skew Schur functions is Schur positive. We consider the posets that result from ordering skew diagrams according to Schur positivity, before focussing on the convex subposets corresponding to ribbons. While the general solution for ribbon Schur functions seems out of reach at present, we determine necessary and sufficient conditions for multiplicity-free ribbons, i.e. those whose expansion as a linear combination of Schur functions has all coefficients either zero or one. In particular, we show that the poset that results from ordering such ribbons according to Schur-positivity is essentially a product of two chains.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2424

zbMATH Keywords

skew Schur functionsSchur function differences

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