Counterexamples to Okounkov's Log-Concavity Conjecture

2006/10/27 by Calin Chindris, Harm Derksen, Chindris, Calin +3 · 1 citation
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0610819

Minor changes/corrections. Final version, to appear in Compositio Mathematica

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Abstract

We give counterexamples to Okounkov's log-concavity conjecture for Littlewood-Richardson coefficients.

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