A Concise Proof of the Littlewood-Richardson Rule

2002/03/15 by John R. Stembridge · 47 citations
Mathematics · Chemistry · #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Molecular spectroscopy and chirality #Mathematics #Combinatorics #Combinatorial proof #Discrete mathematics

paper · pdf · doi:10.37236/1666

published in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 9(1) (Electronic Journal of Combinatorics)

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Abstract

We give a short proof of the Littlewood-Richardson rule using a sign-reversing involution.

Citations

• A generalization of the Littlewood-Richardson rule and the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence
• A Short Proof of the Littlewood–Richardson Rule
• A Littlewood-Richardson rule for symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras
• Group characters and algebra
• The Littlewood-Richardson rule, and related combinatorics

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