Abstracts for the Seminar
 Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics
 Spring 2018

Speaker:  Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota
Title: Cyclic descents
Time: 2:30 PM, Monday, March 12, 2018
Place:  Malott 206

Abstract: (joint with R. Adin and Y. Roichman) Descents in permutations and tableaux arise frequently in combinatorics. More recently, cyclic notions of descents have come up for permutations, and for standard tableaux of certain shapes. I'll talk about recent work resolving the question of exactly which shapes have such a notion of cyclic descents for their tableaux. This leads to a connection with Postnikov's work on toric shapes, and to several questions.


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