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Mihai Ciucu
and Christian Krattenthaler
A factorization theorem for classical group characters, with
applications to plane partitions and rhombus tilings
(19 pages)
Abstract.
We prove that a Schur function of rectangular shape (Mn)
whose
variables are specialized to
x1,x1-1,...,xn,xn-1
factorizes into a product of two odd orthogonal characters of
rectangular shape, one of which is evaluated at
-x1,...,-xn, if
M is even, while it factorizes into a product of a symplectic
character and an even orthogonal
character, both of rectangular shape, if M is odd.
It is furthermore shown
that the first factorization implies a factorization theorem for
rhombus tilings of a hexagon, which has an equivalent formulation in
terms of plane partitions. A similar factorization theorem is proven
for the sum of two Schur functions of respective rectangular shapes
(Mn) and (Mn-1).
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