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rc-graphs and Schubert polynomials. (English) Zbl 0803.05054
Using a formula of S. C. Billey, W. Jockusch and R. P. Stanley [Some combinatorial properties of Schubert polynomials, J. Algebr. Comb. 2, No. 4, 345-374 (1993; Zbl 0790.05093)], S. Fomin and A. N. Kirillov [Yang-Baxter equation, symmetric functions, and Schubert polynomials, Proceedings of the conference on power series and algebraic combinatorics, Firenze (1993)] have introduced a new set of diagrams that encode the Schubert polynomials. In this paper, these objects are called rc-graphs. Here, two variants of an algorithm for constructing the set of all rc-graphs for a given permutation are defined and proved. This construction makes many of the identities known for Schubert polynomials more apparent, and yields new ones. In particular, we find a new proof of Monk’s rule using an insertion algorithm on rc- graphs. This insertion rule is a generalization of the Schensted insertion for tableaux. We find two conjectures of analogs of Pieri’s rule for multiplying Schubert polynomials. The authors also extend the algorithm to generate the double Schubert polynomials.

##### MSC:
 05E05 Symmetric functions and generalizations 05E15 Combinatorial aspects of groups and algebras (MSC2010) 05A99 Enumerative combinatorics 05A19 Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics 05A05 Permutations, words, matrices 14M15 Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds
##### Keywords:
Schubert polynomials; rc-graphs; Monk’s rule; Pieri’s rule
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