Up- and down-operators on Young's lattice

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Abstract: The up-operators ui and down-operators di (introduced as Schur operators by Fomin) act on partitions by adding/removing a box to/from the ith column if possible. It is well known that the ui alone satisfy the relations of the (local) plactic monoid, and the present authors recently showed that relations of degree at most 4 suffice to describe all relations between the up-operators. Here we characterize the algebra generated by the up- and down-operators together, showing that it can be presented using only quadratic relations.


Summary: The up-operators \(u_i\) and down-operators \(d_i\) (introduced as Schur operators by \textit{S. Fomin} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 72, No. 2, 277--292 (1995; Zbl 0839.05093)]) act on partitions by adding/removing a box to/from the \(i\)th column if possible. It is well known that the \(u_i\) alone satisfy the relations of the (local) plactic monoid, and the present authors recently showed [Eur. J. Comb. 87, Article ID 103130, 8 p. (2020; Zbl 1439.05224)] that relations of degree at most 4 suffice to describe all relations between the up-operators. Here we characterize the algebra generated by the up- and down-operators together, showing that it can be presented using only quadratic relations.











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