The srank conjecture on Schur's Q-functions

DOI10.2140/PJM.2010.244.211MaRDI QIDQ848152zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors William Y. C. Chen, Donna Q. J. Dou, Robert L. Tang, Arthur L. B. Yang

Publication date 23 February 2010

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2782

zbMATH Keywords

Schur's \(Q\)-functionbar tableaupower sum symmetric functionskew bar tableausrankstrip tableau

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Projective representations and multipliers (20C25)

Abstract: We show that the shifted rank, or srank, of any partition $lambda$ with distinct parts equals the lowest degree of the terms appearing in the expansion of Schur's $Q_{lambda}$ function in terms of power sum symmetric functions. This gives an affirmative answer to a conjecture of Clifford. As pointed out by Clifford, the notion of the srank can be naturally extended to a skew partition $lambda/mu$ as the minimum number of bars among the corresponding skew bar tableaux. While the srank conjecture is not valid for skew partitions, we give an algorithm to compute the srank.

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