Order ideals in weak subposets of Young's lattice and associated unimodality conjectures

DOI10.1007/S00026-004-0215-5zbMATH Open1063.06001arXivmath/0405136OpenAlexW2130388631WikidataQ123222500 ScholiaQ123222500MaRDI QIDQ1880355FDOQ1880355

Authors: Luc Lapointe, J. Morse 

Publication date: 27 September 2004

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

Abstract: The k-Young lattice Y^k is a weak subposet of the Young lattice containing partitions whose first part is bounded by an integer k>0. The Y^k poset was introduced in connection with generalized Schur functions and later shown to be isomorphic to the weak order on the quotient of the affine symmetric group by a maximal parabolic subgroup. We prove a number of properties for $Y^k$ including that the covering relation is preserved when elements are translated by rectangular partitions with hook-length $k$. We highlight the order ideal generated by an $mimesn$ rectangular shape. This order ideal, L^k(m,n), reduces to L(m,n) for large k, and we prove it is isomorphic to the induced subposet of L(m,n) whose vertex set is restricted to elements with no more than k-m+1 parts smaller than m. We provide explicit formulas for the number of elements and the rank-generating function of L^k(m,n). We conclude with unimodality conjectures involving q-binomial coefficients and discuss how implications connect to recent work on sieved q-binomial coefficients.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405136

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zbMATH Keywords

unimodalityYoung latticerank-generated functionsrectangular order ideal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial orders, general (06A06) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17)

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