‎Let $G$ be a finite $p$-group of order $p^n$ and‎ ‎$|{mathcal M}(G)|=p^{frac{1}{2}n(n-1)-t(G)}$‎, ‎where ${mathcal M}(G)$‎ ‎is the Schur multiplier of $G$ and $t(G)$ is a nonnegative integer‎. ‎The classification of such groups $G$ is already known for $t(G)leq‎ ‎6$‎. ‎This paper extends the classification to $t(G)=7$.

In the prequel to this paper [5], we showed how results of Mason [11], [12] involving a new combinatorial formula for polynomials that are now known as Demazure atoms (characters of quotients of Demazure modules, called standard bases by Lascoux and Schützenberger [6]) could be used to define a new basis for the ring of quasisymmetric functions we call “Quasisymmetric Schur functions” (QS funct...

Haglund, Luoto, Mason, and van Willigenburg introduced a basis for quasisymmetric functions called the quasisymmetric Schur function basis, generated combinatorially through fillings of composition diagrams in much the same way as Schur functions are generated through reverse column-strict tableaux. We introduce a new basis for quasisymmetric functions called the row-strict quasisymmetric Schur...

Let n, r ∈ N. The affine Schur algebra S̃(n, r) (of type A) over a field K is defined to be the endomorphism algebra of certain tensor space over the extended affine Weyl group of type Ar−1. By the affine Schur–Weyl duality it is isomorphic to the image of the representation map of the U(ĝl n ) action on the tensor space when K is the field of complex numbers. We show that S̃(n, r) can be defined...

The double Schur function is a natural generalization of the factorial Schur function introduced by Biedenharn and Louck. It also arises as the symmetric double Schubert polynomial corresponding to a class of permutations called Grassmannian permutations introduced by A. Lascoux. We present a lattice path interpretation of the double Schur function based on a flagged determinantal definition, w...

We prove that structure constants related to Hecke algebras at roots of unity are special cases of k-Littlewood-Richardson coefficients associated to a product of k-Schur functions. As a consequence, both the 3point Gromov-Witten invariants appearing in the quantum cohomology of the Grassmannian, and the fusion coefficients for the WZW conformal field theories associated to ŝu( ) are shown to b...