Elementary proofs of identities for Schur functions and plane partitions

DOI10.1023/A:1009882007093MaRDI QIDQ1567063zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David M. Bressoud

Publication date 29 August 2000

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9808107

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionplane partitionSchur function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10)

Abstract: Elementary proofs are given for sums of Schur functions over partitions into at most n parts each less than or equal to m for which i) all parts are even, ii) all parts of the conjugate partition are even. Also, an elementary proof of a recent result of Ishikawa and Wakayama is given.

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