papers

papers (chronological, or by topic

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51. Garsia--Remmel q-rook numbers are not always unimodal, with Joel Brewster Lewis, 2024, arxiv:2410.19714


50.  Grothendieck Shenanigans: Permutons from pipe dreams via integrable probability, with Greta Panova, Leonid Petrov, and Damir Yeliussizov, 2024, arxiv:2407.21653 , submitted


49. Capacity bounds on integral flows and the Kostant partition function, with Jonathan Leake, 2024, arxiv:2406.07838, submitted


48. Minimal skew semistandard tableaux and the Hillman--Grassl correspondence, with Greta Panova and GaYee Park, 2023, arxiv:2311.09209, accepted Advances in Applied Mathematics

related extended abstract, at FPSAC Davis 2023


47. Hurwitz numbers for reflection groups III: Uniform formulas,  with Theo Douvropoulos and Joel Brewster Lewis, 2023, arXiv:2308.04751, accepted Journal of the London Mathematical Society

 

46. Generalized Pitman-Stanley polytopes: vertices and faces, with William T. Dugan, Maura Hegarty, and Annie Raymondarxiv:2307.09925, cocalc, accepted Discrete and Computational Geometry

related extended abstract, at FPSAC Davis 2023


45. Realizing the s-permutahedron with flow polytopes, with Rafael S. González D'León, Eva Philippe, Daniel Tamayo, and Martha Yip, arxiv:2307.03474, cocalc, submitted

related extended abstract, at FPSAC Bochum 2024


44. Enumeration of max-pooling responses with generalized permutohedra, with Laura Escobar, Patricio Gallardo, Javier González-Anaya, José L. González, Guido Montúfar, 2022, arxiv:2209.14978, github, cocalc, submitted 


43. Combinatorial and Algebraic Enumeration: a survey of the work of Ian P. Goulden and David M. Jackson, with Angèle M. Foley, Amarpreet Rattan and Karen Yeats, 2022, arXiv:2209.10075, Algebraic Combinatorics,  Vol 5 (2022) no. 6,1205-1226, link


42. Hurwitz numbers for reflection groups II: Parabolic quasi-Coxeter elements,  with Theo Douvropoulos and Joel Brewster Lewis, 2022, arXiv:2209.00066, Journal of Algebra, Vol 651 (2024), 648-715


41. The Newton polytope and Lorentzian property of chromatic symmetric functions, with Jacob Matherne and Jesse Selover, arXiv:2201.07333, Selecta Mathematica, link (2024) 

Update: Ricky Liu and Cynthia Vinzant found a counterexample to Conjecture 6.3 at n=8.


40. Hurwitz numbers for reflection groups I: Generatingfunctionology, with Theo Douvropoulos and Joel Brewster Lewis, 2021, arXiv:2112.03427, Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications, Vol 2 (2022) Article #S2R20

related extended abstract, talk at FPSAC Israel 2021


39. Hook formulas for skew shapes IV. Increasing tableaux and factorial Grothendieck polynomials, with Igor Pak and Greta Panova, 2021, arXiv:2108.10140, Journal of Mathematical Sciences (Zap. Nauchn. Sem. S.-Peterburg. Otdel. Mat. Inst. Steklov. (POMI)), Vol 261 (2022), 630-657. 


38. Column convex matrices, G-cyclic orders, and flow polytopes, with Rafael S. González D'León, Christopher R. H. Hanusa and Martha Yip, arxiv:2107.07326,  accepted Discrete and Computational Geometry


37. Bijections and hidden symmetries for skew staircase shapes, with Zachary Hamaker, Igor Pak, Luis Serrano, and Nathan Williamsarxiv:2103.09551Algebraic Combinatorics, Vol 6 (2023) no. 4, 1095-1118.


36. Refinements and Symmetries of the Morris identity for volumes of flow polytopes, with William Shi, 2021, arxiv:2102.05825, Comptes Rendus Mathématique, Vol 359 (2021), 823-851.


35. Chromatic symmetric functions of Dyck paths and q-rook theory, with Laura Colmenarejo and Greta Panova, 2020, arxiv:2104.07599, (extended abstract arxiv:2012.00913), European Journal of Combinatorics, Vol 107 (2023) 103595.


34. On the Okounkov-Olshanski formula for standard tableaux of skew shapes, with Daniel G. Zhu, 2020, arxiv:2007.05006, public cocalc worksheet, Combinatorial Theory, Vol 2 (2022), #1, related extended abstract, poster at FPSAC 2020 Online


33. Counting linear extensions of posets with determinants of hook lengths, with Alexander Garver, Stefan Grosser, and Jacob Mathernearxiv:2001.08822, SIAM Journal of Discrete Math (SIDMA), Vol 35 (2021), 205-233.


32. Kostant's partition function and magic multiplex juggling sequences, with Carolina Benedetti, Christopher R. H. Hanusa, Pamela E. Harris, Anthony Simpson, arxiv:2001.03219, Annals of Combinatorics, Vol 24 (2020), 439-473


31. Factorization problems in complex reflection groups, with Joel Brewster Lewisarxiv:1906.11961, Canadian Journal of Mathematics, Vol 73 (2021) 899-946.

related extended abstract, talk at FPSAC Slovenia 2019


30. Towards a more algebraic footing for quantum field theory, with David M. Jackson and Achim Kempf, arxiv:1805.09812, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Vol 54 (2021) 285201


29. Asymptotics of principal evaluations of Schubert polynomials for layered permutations, with Igor Pak and Greta Panova, arxiv:1805.04341, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol 147 (2019), 1377-1389


28. Asymptotics for the number of standard tableaux of skew shape and for weighted lozenge tilings, with Igor Pak and Martin Tassy, 2018, arxiv:1805.00992, Combinatorics Probability and Computing, Vol 31 (2022), 550-573. 


 27. A combinatorial model for computing volumes of flow polytopes, with Carolina Benedetti, Rafael S. González D'León, Christopher R. H. Hanusa, Pamela E. Harris, Apoorva Khare, and Martha Yip, 2018, arxiv:1801.07684, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 372 (2019), 3369-3404

related extended abstract, poster at FPSAC Dartmouth 2018


26. Volumes and Ehrhart polynomials of flow polytopes, with Karola Mészáros, arxiv:1710.00701, Mathematische Zeitschrift  293 (2019), 1369-1401, link


25. Rook theory of the finite general linear group, with Joel Brewster Lewis, 2017, arxiv:1707.08192Experimental Mathematics, 29 (2020), 328-346  link


24. Hook formulas for skew shapes III. Multivariate and product formulas, with Igor Pak and Greta Panova, 2017, arxiv:1707.00931, Algebraic Combinatorics,  Vol 2 (2019), 815-861 poster

related extended abstract, poster at FPSAC Dartmouth 2018


23. A robust generalization of the Legendre transform for QFT, with David M. Jackson and Achim Kempf, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Vol 50 (2017), arxiv:1612.00462,  we build on the unpublished preprint arXiv:0810.4293


22. Flow polytopes and the space of diagonal harmonics, with Ricky I. Liu and Karola Mészáros, 2016, arxiv:1610.08370, Canadian Journal of Mathematics, Vol 71 (2019), 1495-1521


21. Asymptotics for the number of standard Young tableaux of skew shape, with Igor Pak and Greta Panova, European Journal of Combinatorics,  Vol 70 (2018), arxiv:1610.07561

related article: Why is π < 2φThe American Mathematical Monthly, Vol 125 (2018), 715-723, link


20. Hook formulas for skew shapes II. Combinatorial proofs and enumerative applications, with Igor Pak and Greta Panova, 2016, arxiv:1610.04744, SIAM Journal of Discrete Math (SIDMA), Vol 31 (2017), 1953–1989. 


19. Efficient Routing for Cost Effective Scale-Out Data Architectures, with Ashwin Narayan, Vuk Marković, Natalia Postawa, Anna King, Alejandro Morales, Ashwin Kumar, Petros Efstathopoulos, 2016, short paper Proceedings 2016 IEEE MASCOTS, London, 424-429, IEEE:Xplore, arxiv:1606.08884


18. Hook formulas for skew shapes I. q-analogues and bijections, with Igor Pak and Greta Panova, 2015, arxiv:1512.08348, code, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A, Vol 154 (2018), 350-405

related extended abstract, poster at FPSAC Vancouver 2016


17. GLn(F_q)-analogues of factorization problems in the symmetric group, with Joel Brewster Lewis, 2015, arxiv:1511.00711, European Journal of Combinatorics, Vol 58 (2016) 75-95, preprint, related extended abstract, poster at FPSAC Canada 2016 


16. On flow polytopes, order polytopes, and certain faces of the alternating sign matrix polytope, with Karola Mészáros and Jessica Striker, 2015, arXiv:1510.03357 (v2 significantly expanded, 2019), Discrete & Computational Geometry, Vol 62 (2019), 128–163


15. Probabilistic trees with algebraic roots, with Olivier Bernardi, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Vol 23, No 2 (2016), arXiv:1501.01135, code 


14. The polytope of Tesler matrices, with Karola Mészáros and Brendon Rhoades, 2014, arXiv:1409.8566, B. Selecta Mathematica New Ser., Vol 23 (2017) 425, related extended abstract, presented talk at FPSAC Korea 2015 


13. Combinatorics of diagrams of permutations, with Joel Brewster Lewis, 2014, arXiv:1405.1608, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A, Vol 137 (2016), 273-306, related extended abstract and poster FPSAC Chicago 2014; supplementary code and data (v2. has an appendix by Axel Hultman with a shorter elegant proof of part of Thm. 2.1)


12. New Dirac Delta function based methods with applications to perturbative expansions in quantum field theory and beyond, with Achim Kempf and David M. JacksonJournal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Vol 47, No 41 (2014), arXiv:1404.0747, related article: How to (path) integrate by differentiating, Achim Kempf and David M. Jackson, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 626 (2015), arxiv:1507.04348


11. Structure and enumeration of (3+1)-free posets, with Mathieu Guay-Paquet and Eric Rowland, Annals of Combinatorics, Vol 18, No 4 (2014), 645-674, arXiv:1303.3652, related extended abstract, talk at FPSAC France 2013


10. Flow polytopes of signed graphs and the Kostant partition function, with Karola Mészáros, 2012, arXiv:1208.0140, International Mathematics Research Notices, No 3 (2015), 830-871. preprint

related extended abstract, presented talk at FPSAC Japan 2012; 


9. Counting trees using symmetries, with Olivier Bernardi, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A, Vol 123, No 1 (2014) 104-122, arXiv:1206.0598


8. Counting matrices over finite fields with support on skew Young diagrams and complements of Rothe diagrams

with Aaron J. Klein and Joel Brewster Lewis, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, Vol 39, No 2 (2014) 429-456, arXiv:1203.5804


7.  Separation probabilities for products of permutations, with Olivier Bernardi, Richard P. Stanley and Rosena R. X. Du, Combinatorics Probability and Computing, Vol 23, No 2 (2014) 201-222, arXiv:1202.6471


6. Bijections and symmetries for the factorizations of the long cycle, with Olivier Bernardi, Advances in Applied Math, Vol 50, No 5 (2013) 702-722, arXiv:1112.4970 


5. Bijective evaluation of the connection coefficients of the double coset algebra, with Ekaterina Vassilieva, 2010, arXiv:1011.5001,  poster at FPSAC Iceland 2011


4. Matrices with restriced entries and q-analogues of permutations, with Joel Brewster Lewis, Ricky I. Liu, Greta Panova, Steven V Sam, Yan Zhang, Journal of Combinatorics, Vol 2, No 3 (2012) 355-396, arXiv:1011.4539

related extended abstract, presented talk at FPSAC Iceland 2011


3. E7(7) constraints on counterterms in N=8 supergravity, with Niklas Beisert, Henriette Elvang, Daniel Z. Freedman, Michael Kiermaier, and Stephan Stieberger, Physics Letters B, Vol 694 No 3 (2010) 265-271,arXiv:1009.1643 


2. Direct bijective computation of the generating series for 2 and 3-connection coefficients of the symmetric group, with Ekaterina Vassilieva, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Vol 20, No 2 (2013), arXiv:1101.3614  

related extended abstract, poster at FPSAC Austria 2009


1. On the group-like behaviour of the Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki invariant, with David M. Jackson and Iain Moffatt, Journal of knot theory and its ramifications, Vol 16, No 6 (2007) 699-718, arXiv:QA/0511452   


Phd thesis

Combinatorics of colored factorizations, flow polytopes, and matrices over finite fields, thesis, MIT 2012 

Books

Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics: proceedings of ECCO, co-editors Federico Ardila, and Carolina Benedetti, Cambridge University Press, expected 2025.

Sequences and Statistics

sequences in the OEIS: A347930, A278289, A336674, A331799, A291879, A291908, A291871, A259666, A259485, A248330


Lecture notes (not edited by lecturers)

Math 206 Combinatorics of words: notes from course by Igor Pak, UCLA Fall 2014

Linear extensions of partially ordered sets: notes from minicourse by Richard Stanley, ECCO 2014, Bogota, June 2014.

- last updated: October 25, 2014  

18.318 topics in combinatorics: Positive Grassmannian: typed notes from course by Alex Postnikov, MIT Spring 2012 

(all files, all images made using the free software ipe)

- last updated: April 19, 2014

- shorter notes by Zvi Rosen from minicourse by Alex Postnikov in ECCO 2012.