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Graduate Student Combinatorics Seminar

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 12:30pm

Paul Levande

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

4C2

Haglund recently proved that the Hilbert series for the space of diagonal harmonics has a generating function interpretation as a bivariate generating function over the set of upper-triangular matrices with hook sum equal to one. A longstanding conjecture, however, has been that this Hilbert series is equal to a bivariate generating function over the set of parking functions. We will define both generating functions and discuss the speaker´s efforts to prove the conjecture, including proofs or sketches of proofs for the special cases t=1, q=0, and q^2=0.