Mathematician Robert A. Proctor's Home Page
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Bob Proctor
Professor of Mathematics
University of North Carolina
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Go to the page for:
Let's Expand Rota's Twelvefold Way For Counting Partitions!
(This proposed American Mathematical Monthly article is the reference
for my remarks in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
on partition counts. These appear in the OEIS after you scroll to
the bottom of the
'Par' screen
of the OEIS alphabetical index.)
Chapel Hill Poset Atlas
(leaves this site and goes to a separate site)
d-Complete Posets Generalize Young Diagrams
The following two theorems extend the realms of the hook length and
jeu de taquin properties from the non-trivial classes of posets historically
known to possess these properties (shapes, shifted shapes, and rooted trees)
to one much larger unifying class of posets.
Theorem 1:
Every d-complete poset has the jeu de taquin property.
Theorem 2: (Dale Peterson - B.P.)
Every d-complete poset has the hook length property.
Corollary to Theorem 2:
The number of order extensions of a d-complete poset is given by a hook
length product formula which generalizes the famous Frame-Robinson-Thrall
formula for the number of standard Young tableaux on a given shape.
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Exposition of These Results
as you desire,
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a list of selected
publications.
Contact Information for Students
Office: Phillips Hall 390 - Please come by during my office hours!
(These are posted on my door and they also appear in the 'Course Info'
document
that is posted on Blackboard.) If these are not good times for you, please talk
to me after class to set some other time between 4:00 and 6:00.
Office Phone: None. (Unfortunately most math faculty have lost their office
phones due to budget cuts.)
Electronic mail address: rap =at= email.unc.edu
Research Interests
I primarily work in an area of overlap between combinatorics
and representations of Lie algebras. From the combinatorial side, some of
the objects which arise include Young tableaux, plane partitions, posets,
generating functions, and enumeration formulas. From the representation side,
some of the objects which arise include roots of Lie algebras, weights and
characters of representations, and explicit actions of Lie algebras in representations,
sometimes realized with posets.
Mailing Address
Math Dept, CB #3250 /// Univ of No Carolina /// Chapel Hill, NC
27599 /// USA