Publication Date
2014
Description
Reiner, Shaw and van Willigenburg showed that if two skew Schur functions sA and sB are equal, then the skew shapes $A$ and $B$ must have the same "row overlap partitions." Here we show that these row overlap equalities are also implied by a much weaker condition than Schur equality: that sA and sB have the same support when expanded in the fundamental quasisymmetric basis F. Surprisingly, there is significant evidence supporting a conjecture that the converse is also true.
In fact, we work in terms of inequalities, showing that if the F-support of sA contains that of sB, then the row overlap partitions of A are dominated by those of B, and again conjecture that the converse also holds. Our evidence in favor of these conjectures includes their consistency with a complete determination of all F-support containment relations for F-multiplicity-free skew Schur functions. We conclude with a consideration of how some other quasisymmetric bases fit into our framework.
Journal
Journal of Combinatorics
Volume
5
Issue
1
First Page
51
Last Page
85
Department
Mathematics
Link to Published Version
http://intlpress.com/site/pub/pages/journals/items/joc/content/vols/0005/0001/a003/index.html
Recommended Citation
McNamara, Peter R. W.. "Comparing skew Schur functions: a quasisymmetric perspective." Journal of Combinatorics (2014) : 51-85.