Hook length and symplectic content in partitions

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2023.105794zbMATH Open1526.05009arXiv2205.07322OpenAlexW4385438331MaRDI QIDQ6133636FDOQ6133636

Authors: T. Amdeberhan, George E. Andrews, Cristina Ballantine 

Publication date: 21 August 2023

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

Abstract: The dimension of an irreducible representation of $GL(n,mathbbC)$, $Sp(2n)$, or $SO(n)$ is given by the respective hook-length and content formulas for the corresponding partition. The first author, inspired by the Nekrasov-Okounkov formula, conjectured combinatorial interpretations of analogous expressions involving hook-lengths and symplectic/orthogonal contents. We prove special cases of these conjectures. In the process, we show that partitions of $n$ with all symplectic contents non-zero are equinumerous with partitions of $n$ into distinct even parts. We also present Beck-type companions to this identity. In this context, we give the parity of the number of partitions into distinct parts with odd (respectively, even) rank. We study the connection between the sum of hook-lengths and the sum of inversions in the binary representation of a partition. In addition, we introduce a new partition statistic, the $x$-ray list of a partition, and explore its connection with distinct partitions as well as partitions maximally contained in a given staircase partition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07322

zbMATH Keywords

partitionshook lengthhook length-content formulassymplectic content

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81)

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