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Alexander Postnikov.
Liu, Ricky Ini
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
2010-12-06T17:36:37Z
2010-12-06T17:36:37Z
2010
2010
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60196
681954770
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2010.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-88).
The algebra of symmetric functions, the representation theory of the symmetric group, and the geometry of the Grassmannian are related to each other via Schur functions, Specht modules, and Schubert varieties, all of which are indexed by partitions and their Young diagrams. We will generalize these objects to allow for not just Young diagrams but arbitrary collections of boxes or, equally well, bipartite graphs. We will then provide evidence for a conjecture that the relation between the areas described above can be extended to these general diagrams. In particular, we will prove the conjecture for forests. Along the way, we will use a novel geometric approach to show that the dimension of the Specht module of a forest is the same as the normalized volume of its matching polytope. We will also demonstrate a new Littlewood-Richardson rule and provide combinatorial, algebraic, and geometric interpretations of it.
by Ricky Ini Liu.
Ph.D.
88 p.
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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