Abstract
The notion of descent set, for permutations as well as for standard Young tableaux (SYT), is classical. Cellini introduced a natural notion of cyclic descent set for permutations, and Rhoades introduced such a notion for SYT - but only for rectangular shapes. In this work we define cyclic extensions of descent sets in a general context and prove existence and essential uniqueness for SYT of almost all shapes. The proof applies nonnegativity properties of Postnikov's toric Schur polynomials, providing a new interpretation of certain Gromov-Witten invariants.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 10231-10276 |
| Number of pages | 46 |
| Journal | International Mathematics Research Notices |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue number | 24 |
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| State | Published - 1 Dec 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 The Author(s).
Funding
This work was partially supported by a MIT-Israel International Science and Technology Initiatives grant [to R.M.A. and Y.R.] and a National Science Foundation grant [DMS-1601961 to V.R.].
| Funders | Funder number |
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| National Science Foundation | DMS-1601961 |