Ribbon Schur operators
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Ribbon Schur operators
zbMATH Open document ID: 1133.05098
author: Thomas Lam
published in: European Journal of Combinatorics
publication date: 2007-11-30T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409463
review text: This paper gives a new combinatorial approach to the ribbon tableau generating functions \({\mathcal G}_{\lambda/\mu}(X;q)\) (\(q\) a parameter), defined in terms of certain generalized Young tableaux, called ribbon tableaux, of shape \(\lambda/\mu\). These functions, introduced by \textit{A. Lascoux}, \textit{B. Leclerc}, and \textit{J.-Y. Thibon} [J. Math. Phys. 38, 1041--1068 (1997; Zbl 0869.05068)], are \(q\)-analogues of products of Schur functions, and generalize the Hall-Littlewood functions. Let \(\mathbf F\) denote a vector space over \(\mathbb C(q)\) spanned by a countable basis \(\{\lambda\mid \lambda\in\mathcal P\}\), indexed by partitions \(\lambda\). The author defines, for \(i\in\mathbb Z\), linear operators \(u_{i}^{(n)}:\mathbf F\rightarrow\mathbf F\), called ribbon Schur operators, which add ribbons (skew Young diagrams containing no \(2\times 2\) square) to partitions. Following \textit{S. Fomin} and \textit{C. Greene} [Discrete Math. 193, 179--200 (1998; Zbl 1011.05062)], he then studies non-commutative (skew) Schur functions \(s_{\lambda/\mu}(\underline{u})\) in these operators. The motivating question for this study is whether the \(q\)-Littlewood-Richardson coefficients \(c_{\lambda/\mu}^{\nu}(q)\in\mathbb N(q)\), defined by \({\mathcal G}_{\lambda/\mu}(X;q)= \sum_{\nu}c_{\lambda/\mu}^{\nu}(q) s_{\nu}(X)\), are non-negative polynomials (in \(q\)) for all skew shapes \(\lambda/\mu\). This condition is shown to be equivalent to the non-commutative Schur function \(s_{\nu}(\underline{u})\) being a non-negative sum of monomials in the \(u_{i}\) (Proposition 14). The question is formulated as Conjecture 15, which is then proved for \(\nu=(a,1^{b})\) (Theorem 17) and \(\nu=(s,2)\) (Theorem 17); the latter also gives the result for \(\nu=(2,2,1^{a})\) (by duality), and the author speculates that Theorems 17 and 19 may be combined to give an expression for \(\nu=(a,2,1^{b})\). The author's approach also yields new proofs of the symmetry of \({\mathcal…
reviewed by: M. Rafiq Omar
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05E05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05E10
zbMATH DE Number: 5216518
zbMATH Keywords: Partition
zbMATH Keywords: Young tableau
zbMATH Keywords: Ribbon tableau
zbMATH Keywords: Generating function
zbMATH Keywords: Schur function
zbMATH Keywords: Littlewood-Richardson coefficient
zbMATH Keywords: Heisenberg algebra
zbMATH Keywords: Fock space
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2057053198
arXiv ID: math/0409463
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DOI: 10.1016/J.EJC.2006.01.016
description: scientific article