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Honeycombs and Littlewood-Richardson Coefficients

Student-Run Discrete Math Seminar

Speaker: Jeff Ferreira, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Thu, Apr 8 2010, 12:10PM

I will discuss the honeycomb model of Knutson and Tao and use it to determine the positivity of certain Littlewood-Richardson coefficients.