Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B77c (2017), 40 pp.

Jonah Blasiak

Kronecker Coefficients For One Hook Shape

Abstract. We give a positive combinatorial formula for the Kronecker coefficient gλ μ(d) ν for any partitions λ, ν of n and hook shape μ(d) := (n-d,1d). Our main tool is Haiman's mixed insertion. This is a generalization of Schensted insertion to colored words, words in the alphabet of barred letters 1-, 2-, ... and unbarred letters 1, 2, ... We define the set of colored Yamanouchi tableaux of content λ and total color d (CYTλ,d) to be the set of mixed insertion tableaux of colored words w with exactly d barred letters and such that wblft is a Yamanouchi word of content λ, where wblft is the ordinary word formed from w by shuffling its barred letters to the left and then removing their bars. We prove that gλ μ(d) ν is equal to the number of CYTλ,d of shape ν with unbarred southwest corner.


Received: December 1, 2016. Accepted: December 2, 2016. Final version: December 6, 2016.

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