The srank conjecture on Schur's Q-functions

DOI10.2140/PJM.2010.244.211zbMATH Open1277.05164arXiv0805.2782OpenAlexW2168785660WikidataQ122982374 ScholiaQ122982374MaRDI QIDQ848152FDOQ848152

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)

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.

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

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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)

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