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Publications (34)

math.CO2012

Orientations, semiorders, arrangements, and parking functions

Sam Hopkins, David Perkinson

It is known that the Pak-Stanley labeling of the Shi hyperplane arrangement provides a bijection between the regions of the arrangement and parking functions. For any graph G, we d…

math.CO2025

Upho lattices I: examples and non-examples of cores

Sam Hopkins

A poset is called upper homogeneous, or "upho," if every principal order filter of the poset is isomorphic to the whole poset. We study (finite type -graded) upho latti…

math.CO2017

Another proof of Wilmes' conjecture

Sam Hopkins

We present a new proof of the monomial case of Wilmes' conjecture, which gives a formula for the coarsely-graded Betti numbers of the G-parking function ideal in terms of maximal p…

math.CO2026

Cyclic Sieving for Staircase Plane Partitions via Crystals and Electrical Networks

Sam Hopkins, Jesse Kim, Stephan Pfannerer

The paper proves a cyclic sieving phenomenon for the promotion action on height‑two staircase plane partitions, using spin crystal representations and the bush basis of the electri…

#cyclic sieving#plane partitions#promotion#crystal bases
math.CO2020

Minuscule doppelgängers, the coincidental down-degree expectations property, and rowmotion

Sam Hopkins

We relate Reiner, Tenner, and Yong's coincidental down-degree expectations (CDE) property of posets to the minuscule doppelgänger pairs studied by Hamaker, Patrias, Pechenik, and…

math.CO2020

Cyclic Sieving for Plane Partitions and Symmetry

Sam Hopkins

The cyclic sieving phenomenon of Reiner, Stanton, and White says that we can often count the fixed points of elements of a cyclic group acting on a combinatorial set by plugging ro…

math.CO2021

Promotion of Kreweras words

Sam Hopkins, Martin Rubey

Kreweras words are words consisting of n A's, n B's, and n C's in which every prefix has at least as many A's as B's and at least as many A's as C's. Equivalently, a Kreweras word…

math.CO2019

Root system chip-firing II: Central-firing

Pavel Galashin, Sam Hopkins, Thomas McConville +1

Jim Propp recently proposed a labeled version of chip-firing on a line and conjectured that this process is confluent from some initial configurations. This was proved by Hopkins-M…

math.CO2016

Sorting via chip-firing

Sam Hopkins, Thomas McConville, James Propp

We investigate a variant of the chip-firing process on the infinite path graph: rather than treating the chips as indistinguishable, we label them with positive integers. To fire a…

math.CO2018

Root system chip-firing I: Interval-firing

Pavel Galashin, Sam Hopkins, Thomas McConville +1

Jim Propp recently introduced a variant of chip-firing on a line where the chips are given distinct integer labels. Hopkins, McConville, and Propp showed that this process is confl…

math.CO2026

Upho lattices II: ways of realizing a core

Sam Hopkins, Joel B. Lewis

A poset is called upper homogeneous, or "upho," if all of its principal order filters are isomorphic to the whole poset. In previous work of the first author, it was shown that eac…

math.CO2015

Interlacing networks: birational RSK, the octahedron recurrence, and Schur function identities

Miriam Farber, Sam Hopkins, Wuttisak Trongsiriwat

Motivated by the problem of giving a bijective proof of the fact that the birational RSK correspondence satisfies the octahedron recurrence, we define interlacing networks, which a…

math.CO2025

RSK via local transformations

Sam Hopkins

We explain how to define the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth (RSK) correspondence in terms of local transformations called "toggles." (This note, which is not intended for publication and…

math.CO2019

A positive formula for the Ehrhart-like polynomials from root system chip-firing

Sam Hopkins, Alexander Postnikov

In earlier work in collaboration with Pavel Galashin and Thomas McConville we introduced a version of chip-firing for root systems. Our investigation of root system chip-firing led…

math.CO2015

Fourientations and the Tutte Polynomial

Spencer Backman, Sam Hopkins

A fourientation of a graph is a choice for each edge of the graph whether to orient that edge in either direction, leave it unoriented, or biorient it. Fixing a total order on the…

math.CO2023

On the -Enumeration of Barely Set-Valued Tableaux and Plane Partitions

Sam Hopkins, Alexander Lazar, Svante Linusson

Barely set-valued tableaux are a variant of Young tableaux in which one box contains two numbers as its entry. It has recently been discovered that there are product formulas enume…

math.CO2026

Two -analogues of the tree inversion enumerator

Sam Hopkins

In this note, we introduce two -analogues and of the tree inversion enumerator . Although similar, and $\widetilde{I}_n(q,t)…

math.CO2024

Order polynomial product formulas and poset dynamics

Sam Hopkins

We survey all known examples of finite posets whose order polynomials have product formulas, and we propose the heuristic that these are the same posets with good dynamical behavio…

math.CO2016

The CDE property for minuscule lattices

Sam Hopkins

Reiner, Tenner, and Yong recently introduced the coincidental down-degree expectations (CDE) property for finite posets and showed that many nice posets are CDE. In this paper we f…

math.CO2023

Restricted Birkhoff polytopes and Ehrhart period collapse

Per Alexandersson, Sam Hopkins, Gjergji Zaimi

We show that the polytopes obtained from the Birkhoff polytope by imposing additional inequalities restricting the "longest increasing subsequence" have Ehrhart quasi-polynomials w…

math.CO2022

A note on Möbius functions of upho posets

Sam Hopkins

A poset is called upper homogeneous (or "upho") if every principal order filter of the poset is isomorphic to the whole poset. We observe that the rank and characteristic generatin…

math.CO2023

Homomesy via Toggleability Statistics

Colin Defant, Sam Hopkins, Svetlana Poznanović +1

The rowmotion operator acting on the set of order ideals of a finite poset has been the focus of a significant amount of recent research. One of the major goals has been to exhibit…

math.CO2016

Parking functions and tree inversions revisited

Petar Gaydarov, Sam Hopkins

Kreweras proved that the reversed sum enumerator for parking functions of length is equal to the inversion enumerator for labeled trees on vertices. Recently, Perkinson,…

math.RA2016

Quantum integer-valued polynomials

Nate Harman, Sam Hopkins

We define a -deformation of the classical ring of integer-valued polynomials which we call the ring of quantum integer-valued polynomials. We show that this ring has a remarkabl…

math.CO2019

The CDE property for skew vexillary permutations

Sam Hopkins

We prove a conjecture of Reiner, Tenner, and Yong which says that the initial weak order intervals corresponding to certain vexillary permutations have the coincidental down-degree…

math.CO2021

Plane partitions of shifted double staircase shape

Sam Hopkins, Tri Lai

We give a product formula for the number of shifted plane partitions of shifted double staircase shape with bounded entries. This is the first new example of a family of shapes wit…

math.CO2015

Pattern Avoidance in Poset Permutations

Sam Hopkins, Morgan Weiler

We extend the concept of pattern avoidance in permutations on a totally ordered set to pattern avoidance in permutations on partially ordered sets. The number of permutations on $P…

math.CO2017

Fourientation activities and the Tutte polynomial

Spencer Backman, Sam Hopkins, Lorenzo Traldi

A fourientation of a graph is a choice for each edge of the graph whether to orient that edge in either direction, leave it unoriented, or biorient it. We may naturally view fo…

math.CO2014

A note on statistical averages for oscillating tableaux

Sam Hopkins, Ingrid Zhang

We define a statistic called the weight of oscillating tableaux. Oscillating tableaux, a generalization of standard Young tableaux, are certain walks in Young's lattice of partitio…

math.CO2012

Bigraphical Arrangements

Sam Hopkins, David Perkinson

We define the bigraphical arrangement of a graph and show that the Pak-Stanley labels of its regions are the parking functions of a closely related graph, thus proving conjectures…

math.CO2021

The birational Lalanne-Kreweras involution

Sam Hopkins, Michael Joseph

The Lalanne-Kreweras involution is an involution on the set of Dyck paths which combinatorially exhibits the symmetry of the number of valleys and major index statistics. We define…

math.CO2023

Combinatorial reciprocity for non-intersecting paths

Sam Hopkins, Gjergji Zaimi

We prove a combinatorial reciprocity theorem for the enumeration of non-intersecting paths in a linearly growing sequence of acyclic planar networks. We explain two applications of…

math.CO2021

Symmetry of Narayana numbers and rowvacuation of root posets

Colin Defant, Sam Hopkins

For a Weyl group of rank , the -Catalan number is the number of antichains of the poset of positive roots, and the -Narayana numbers refine the -Catalan number by k…

math.CO2015

The expected jaggedness of order ideals

Melody Chan, Shahrzad Haddadan, Sam Hopkins +1

The jaggedness of an order ideal I in a poset P is the number of maximal elements in I plus the number of minimal elements of P not in I. A probability distribution on the set of o…