2 papers
math.CO2005
The Zrank Conjecture and Restricted Cauchy Matrices
Guo-Guang Yan, Arthur L. B. Yang, Joan J. Zhou
The rank of a skew partition , denoted , is the smallest number such that is a disjoint union of border strips. Let denote the skew Sch…
math.CO2004
Transformations of Border Strips and Schur Function Determinants
William Y. C. Chen, Guo-Guang Yan, Arthur L. B. Yang
We introduce the notion of the cutting strip of an outside decomposition of a skew shape, and show that cutting strips are in one-to-one correspondence with outside decompositions…