Abstract
We use the K-Knuth equivalence of Buch and Samuel (2015) to define a K-theoretic analogue of the Poirier-Reutenauer Hopf algebra. As an application, we rederive the K-theoretic Littlewood-Richardson rules of Thomas and Yong (2009, 2011) and of Buch and Samuel (2015).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1095-1115 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Discrete Mathematics |
Volume | 339 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 6 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
Keywords
- Bialgebra
- K-theory
- Symmetric functions