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Christian Krattenthaler and Sri Gopal Mohanty

Counting tableaux with row and column bounds

(12 pages)

Abstract. It is well-known that the generating function for tableaux of a given skew shape with r rows where the parts in the i'th row are bounded by some upper and lower bounds which depend on i can be written in form of a determinant of size r. Using Gessel and Viennot's idea of nonintersecting lattice paths, we show that the generating function for tableaux of a given skew shape with r rows and c columns where the parts in the i'th row are bounded by upper and lower bounds which depend on i and the parts in the j'th column are bounded by upper and lower bounds which depend on j can also be given in determinantal form. The size of the determinant now is r+2c.


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