Cristian Lenart ; Anne Schilling
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Crystal energy via charge
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2012,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AR, 24th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2012)
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3015
Crystal energy via chargeArticle
Authors: Cristian Lenart 1; Anne Schilling 2
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Cristian Lenart;Anne Schilling
1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics [Albany-USA]
2 Department of Mathematics [Univ California Davis]
The Ram–Yip formula for Macdonald polynomials (at t=0) provides a statistic which we call charge. In types ${A}$ and ${C}$ it can be defined on tensor products of Kashiwara–Nakashima single column crystals. In this paper we show that the charge is equal to the (negative of the) energy function on affine crystals. The algorithm for computing charge is much simpler than the recursive definition of energy in terms of the combinatorial ${R}$-matrix.