390 research outputs found
The oriented swap process and last passage percolation
We present new probabilistic and combinatorial identities relating three
random processes: the oriented swap process on particles, the corner growth
process, and the last passage percolation model. We prove one of the
probabilistic identities, relating a random vector of last passage percolation
times to its dual, using the duality between the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth and
Burge correspondences. A second probabilistic identity, relating those two
vectors to a vector of 'last swap times' in the oriented swap process, is
conjectural. We give a computer-assisted proof of this identity for
after first reformulating it as a purely combinatorial identity, and discuss
its relation to the Edelman-Greene correspondence. The conjectural identity
provides precise finite- and asymptotic predictions on the distribution of
the absorbing time of the oriented swap process, thus conditionally solving an
open problem posed by Angel, Holroyd and Romik.Comment: 36 pages, 6 figures. Full version of the FPSAC 2020 extended abstract
arXiv:2003.0333
Growth diagrams, and increasing and decreasing chains in fillings of Ferrers shapes
We put recent results by Chen, Deng, Du, Stanley and Yan on crossings and
nestings of matchings and set partitions in the larger context of the
enumeration of fillings of Ferrers shape on which one imposes restrictions on
their increasing and decreasing chains. While Chen et al. work with
Robinson-Schensted-like insertion/deletion algorithms, we use the growth
diagram construction of Fomin to obtain our results. We extend the results by
Chen et al., which, in the language of fillings, are results about
--fillings, to arbitrary fillings. Finally, we point out that, very
likely, these results are part of a bigger picture which also includes recent
results of Jonsson on --fillings of stack polyominoes, and of results of
Backelin, West and Xin and of Bousquet-M\'elou and Steingr\'\i msson on the
enumeration of permutations and involutions with restricted patterns. In
particular, we show that our growth diagram bijections do in fact provide
alternative proofs of the results by Backelin, West and Xin and by
Bousquet-M\'elou and Steingr\'\i msson.Comment: AmS-LaTeX; 27 pages; many corrections and improvements of
short-comings; thanks to comments by Mireille Bousquet-Melou and Jakob
Jonsson, the final section is now much more profound and has additional
result
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