Families of major index distributions: closed forms and unimodality
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Families of major index distributions: closed forms and unimodality
zbMATH Open document ID: 1420.05181
author: William J. Keith
published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
publication date: 2019-09-30T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01362
full work available at URL: v26i3p58
review text: Summary: Closed forms for \(f_{\lambda,i} (q) := \sum_{\tau \in \mathrm{SYT}(\lambda):\mathrm{des}(\tau) = i}q^{\mathrm{maj}(\tau)}\), the distribution of the major index over standard Young tableaux of given shapes and specified number of descents, are established for a large collection of \(\lambda\) and \(i\). Of particular interest is the family that gives a positive answer to a question of Sagan and collaborators [\textit{A. N. Sergeev}, Math. USSR, Sb. 51, 419--427 (1985; Zbl 0573.17002); translation from Mat. Sb., Nov. Ser. 123(165), No. 3, 422--430 (1984)]. All formulas established in the paper are unimodal, most by a result of \textit{A. N. Kirillov} and \textit{N. Yu. Reshetikhin} [J. Sov. Math. 41, No. 2, 925--955 (1988; Zbl 0639.20029)]. Many can be identified as specializations of Schur functions via the Jacobi-Trudi identities. If the number of arguments is sufficiently large, it is shown that any finite principal specialization of any Schur function \(s_\lambda(1,q,q^2,\dots,q^{n-1})\) has a combinatorial realization as the distribution of the major index over a given set of tableaux.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05E10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05A17
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11P83
zbMATH DE Number: 7110975
zbMATH Keywords: quantum inverse scattering
zbMATH Keywords: Bethe's ansatz
zbMATH Keywords: integrable quantum systems
zbMATH Keywords: standard Young tableaux
zbMATH Keywords: rigged configurations
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: 1808.01362
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