Combinatorial Wall-Crossing and the Mullineux Involution

Abstract

In this paper, we define the combinatorial wall-crossing transformation and the generalized column regularization on partitions and prove that a certain composition of these two transformations has the same effect on the one-row partition $(n)$. As corollaries we explicitly describe the quotients of the partitions which arise in this process. We also prove that the one-row partition is the unique partition that stays regular at any step of the wall-crossing transformation.