Some combinatorial properties of hook lengths, contents, and parts of partitions
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Stanley, Richard P.
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The main result of this paper is a generalization of a conjecture of Guoniu Han, originally inspired by an identity of Nekrasov and Okounkov. Our result states that if F is any symmetric function (say over ℚ) and if
$$\Phi_n(F)=\frac{1}{n!}\sum_{\lambda\vdash n}f_\lambda^2F(h_u^2:u\in\lambda),$$
where h u denotes the hook length of the square u of the partition λ of n and f λ is the number of standard Young tableaux of shape λ, then Φ n (F) is a polynomial function of n. A similar result is obtained when F(h u 2:u∈λ) is replaced with a function that is symmetric separately in the contents c u of λ and the shifted parts λ i +n−i of λ.
Date issued
2009-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of MathematicsJournal
Ramanujan Journal
Publisher
Springer
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Stanley, Richard. “Some combinatorial properties of hook lengths, contents, and parts of partitions.” The Ramanujan Journal 23.1 (2010): 91-105-105.
Version: Author's final manuscript
ISSN
1382-4090
1572-9303