• Start Date: October 13, 2022
  • Event Start Time: 5:00 PM
  • Event End Time: 6:00 PM
  • Seminar Series: Experimental Math Seminar
  • Presenter(s): Swee Hong Chan - Rutgers University
  • Event Location: Online Event
  • Event Additional Info: <p>Presented Via Zoom:&nbsp;<a href="https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94346444480">https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94346444480</a></p> <p>Password: 6564120420</p> <p>For further information see:&nbsp;<a href="https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/expmath/">https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/expmath/</a></p>
  • Presentation Type: Stand Alone Presentation
  • Abstract:

    Can you always find two elements x,y of a partially ordered set, such that, the probability that x is ordered before y when the poset is ordered randomly, is between 1/3 and 2/3? This is the celebrated 1/3-2/3 Conjecture, which has been called "one of the most intriguing problems in the combinatorial theory of posets". We will explore this conjecture for posets that arise from (skew-shaped) Young diagrams, where total orderings of these posets correspond to standard Young tableaux. We will show that these probabilities are arbitrarily close to 1/2, by using random walk estimates and the state-of-the-art hook-length formulas of Naruse. This is a joint work with Igor Pak and Greta Panova. This talk is aimed at a general audience.

    Link to video: https://vimeo.com/762697835