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Department of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego
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Math 269 - Combinatorics
Alex Postnikov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Towards general Schur positivity and higher saturation
Abstract:
We prove Schur positivity conjectures due to Fomin-Fulton-Li-Poon and Okounkov and give several related results. We show that Schur polynomials satisfy an interesting Schur-log-concavity property. We discuss a "higher Klyachko problem" about inequalities between Littlewood-Richardson coefficients and formulate a general Schur positivity conjecture involving certain mysterious convex polytopes. The talk is based on a joint work with Thomas Lam and Pavlo Pylyavskyy.
Host: Adriano Garsia
May 9, 2006
4:00 PM
AP&M 7321
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