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Hook formulas for skew shapes
Algebra & Discrete Mathematics| Speaker: | Greta Panova, USC |
| Related Webpage: | https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/gpanova/home |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Tue, Oct 8 2019, 12:10PM |
In 2014, Naruse announced a formula for skew shapes as a positive sum of products of hook-lengths using "excited diagrams" coming from the Algebraic Geometry of the Grassmannian. We will show several combinatorial and algebraic proofs of this formula. Multivariate versions of the hook formula lead to exact product formulas for certain skew SYTs and evaluations of Schubert polynomials. The Naruse hook-length formula can also be used to derive asymptotic results for the number of skew SYTs in many regimes, and principal evaluations of certain Schubert polynomials shedding light over Stanley's ``Schubert shenanigans'' conjectures. As a side effect of these studies, we will show how these formulas improve Stanley's lower bound for the maximal Schubert polynomial. Joint work with Alejandro Morales and Igor Pak.
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