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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

Equality of multiplicity free skew characters

Christian Gutschwager

DOI: 10.1007/s10801-008-0158-8

Abstract

In this paper we show that two skew diagrams λ / μ  and α / β  can represent the same multiplicity free skew character [ λ / μ ]=[ α / β ] only in the the trivial cases when λ / μ  and α / β  are the same up to translation or rotation or if λ = α  is a staircase partition λ =( l, l - 1,\cdots ,2,1) and λ / μ  and α / β  are conjugate of each other.

Pages: 215–232

Keywords: keywords skew characters; symmetric group; skew Schur functions; Schubert calculus

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