| Abstract: | It is well known that Littlewood-Richardson sequences give a combinatorial characterization for the invariant factors of a product of two matrices over a principal ideal domain. Given partitions a and c, let LR(a,c) be the set of partitions b for which at least one Littlewood - Richardson sequence of type (a,b,c) exists. I. Zaballa has shown in [20] that LR(a, c) has a minimal element w and a maximal element n, with respect to the order bf majorization, depending only on a and c;. In generalLR(a, c) is not the whole interval [w, n]. Here a combinatorial algorithm is provided for constructing all the elements of LR(a, c). This algorithm consists in starting with the minimal Littlewood-Richardson sequence of shape c/a and successively modifying it until the maximal Littlewood - Richardson sequence of shape c/a is achieved. Also explicit bijections between Littlewood - Richardson sequences of conjugate shape and weight and between Littlewood - Richardson sequences of dual shape and equal weight are presented. The bijections are denned by means of permutations of Littlewood - Richardson sequences. |
