On principal hook length partitions and Durfee sizes in skew characters

DOI10.1007/S00026-011-0084-7MaRDI QIDQ659618zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Gutschwager

Publication date 24 January 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0417

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric groupskew Schur functionsskew charactersDurfee sizeprincipal hook lengthsSchubert Calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

Abstract: In this paper we construct for a given arbitrary skew diagram A all partitions nu with maximal principal hook lengths among all partitions with the character [nu] appearing in the skew character [A]. Furthermore we show that these are also partitions with minimal Durfee size. This we use to give the maximal Durfee size for [nu] appearing in [A] for the cases when A decays into two partitions and for some special cases of A. Also this gives conditions for two skew diagrams to represent the same skew character.

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