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CAGE: Philadelphia Area Combinatorics and Alg. Geometry Seminar

Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 3:30pm

GaYee Park

UMass Amherst

Location

Drexel University

Korman Center 245

Linear extensions of posets are important objects in enumerative and algebraic combinatorics that are difficult to count in general. Families of posets like Young diagrams of straight shapes and $d$-complete posets have hook-length product formulas to count linear extensions, whereas families like Young diagrams of skew shapes have determinant or positive sum formulas like the Naruse hook-length formula from 2014. In 2020, Garver et. al. gave determinant formulas to count linear extensions of a family of posets called mobile posets that refine $d$-complete posets and border strip skew shapes. We give a Naruse type hook-length formula to count linear extensions of such posets by proving a major index $q$-analogue. We also give an inversion index $q$-analogue of the Naruse formula for mobile tree posets.