Jeux de tableaux: Complementation and Internal Insertion

Tom Roby, Jeff Stroomer, Frank Sottile, and Julian West

We study four operations defined on pairs of Young tableaux. Algorithms for the first three involve the familiar procedures of jeu de taquin, row insertion, and column insertion, respectively. The fourth operation is new, although specialised versions have appeared previously. Like the other three operations, this new operation may be computed with a set of local rules in a growth diagram, and it preserves Knuth equivalence class. Each of these four operations gives rise to an a priori distinct theory of dual equivalence. We show that these four theories coincide. The four operations are linked via the involutive tableau operations of complementation and conjugation in illuminating commutative diagrams.



The manuscript in postscript.
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