Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 84B.62 (2020), 12 pp.

Graham Hawkes and Travis Scrimshaw

Crystal Structures for Canonical and Dual Weak Symmetric Grothendieck Functions

Abstract. We give a Uq(sln)-crystal structure on multiset-valued tableaux, hook-valued tableaux, and valued-set tableaux, whose generating functions are the weak symmetric, canonical, and dual weak symmetric Grothendieck functions, respectively. We show the result is isomorphic to a (possibly infinite) direct sum of highest weight crystals, and we provide an explicit bijection for multiset-valued tableaux. As a consequence, these generating functions are Schur positive; in particular, the canonical Grothendieck functions are Schur positive, which was not previously known. We extend Hecke insertion to express a dual stable Grothendieck function as a sum of Schur functions.


Received: November 20, 2019. Accepted: February 20, 2020. Final version: April 30, 2020.

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