The number of extremal components of a rigid measure

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2011.03.006MaRDI QIDQ549243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlo Angiuli, H. Bercovici

Publication date 7 July 2011

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0394

zbMATH Keywords

Littlewood-Richardson rulepuzzlerigid measuretree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15)

Abstract: It is known that the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients can be calculated using a certain class of measures, and these measures have a rigidity property when the coefficient is equal to 1. Rigid measures decompose uniquely into sums of extremal rigid measures. We show that the number of extremal summands is closely related with geometric data easily obtained from the support of the measure.

Review text

First the authors define rigid measures and dual measures. After then they introduce \(ext(\mu)\) and \(ext(\mu^*)\), \(att(\mu)\) where \(ext(\mu)\) and \(ext(\mu^*)\) are the numbers of extremal summands of a rigid measure \(\mu\) and dual measure \(\mu^*\) respectively, and \(att(\mu)\) is the number of attachment points of \(\mu\). In this paper they prove the following result. For every rigid measure \(\mu\) \[ ext(\mu) + ext(\mu^*) = att(\mu) + 1. \] This result is useful for writing explicit solutions of Schubert calculus problems.

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