Combinatorial proof of the skew K-saturation theorem

Abstract

We give a combinatorial proof of the skew Kostka analogue of the K-saturation theorem. More precisely, for any positive integer k, we give an explicit injection from the set of skew semistandard Young tableaux with skew shape k\lambda/k\mu{} and type k\nu{} to the set of skew semistandard Young tableaux of shape \lambda/\mu{} and type \nu. Based on this method, we pose some natural conjectural refinements on related problems.