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Lattice path proof of the ribbon determinant formula for Schur functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Kazuo Ueno*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466, Japan
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In this note we give a lattice path proof of the ribbon determinant formula for Schur functions ((1) below) which was originally formulated and proved in [2].

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Research Article
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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1991

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