Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4655889 Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 2010 15 Pages PDF
Abstract

We present a partial generalization of the classical Littlewood–Richardson rule (in its version based on Schützenberger's jeu de taquin) to Schubert calculus on flag varieties. More precisely, we describe certain structure constants expressing the product of a Schubert and a Schur polynomial. We use a generalization of Fomin's growth diagrams (for chains in Young's lattice of partitions) to chains of permutations in the so-called k-Bruhat order. Our work is based on the recent thesis of Beligan, in which he generalizes the classical plactic structure on words to chains in certain intervals in k-Bruhat order. Potential applications of our work include the generalization of the S3-symmetric Littlewood–Richardson rule due to Thomas and Yong, which is based on Fomin's growth diagrams.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics