Promotion and Cyclic Sieving on Rectangular $\delta$-Semistandard Tableaux

Abstract

Let $\delta=(\delta_1,\ldots,\delta_n)$ be a string of letters $h$ and $v$. We define a Young tableau to be $\delta$-semistandard if the entries are weakly increasing along rows and columns, and the entries $i$ form a horizontal strip if $\delta_i=h$ and a vertical strip if $\delta_i=v$. We define $\delta$-promotion on such tableaux via a modified jeu-de-taquin. The first main result is that $\delta$-promotion has period $n$ on rectangular $\delta$-semistandard tableaux, generalizing the results of Haiman and Rhoades for standard and semistandard tableaux. The second main result states that the set of rectangular $\delta$-semistandard tableaux for fixed $\delta$ and content $\gamma$ exhibits the cyclic sieving phenomenon with the generalized Kostka polynomial. To do so we follow Fontaine-Kamnitzer and associate to $(\delta,\gamma)$ an $SL_m$-invariant space Inv$(V_{\lambda^1}\otimes\cdots\otimes V_{\lambda^n})$ where each $V_{\lambda^i}$ is an alternating or symmetric representation. We show that the Satake basis of the corresponding invariant space is indexed by the set of tableaux corresponding to $(\delta,\gamma)$ and is permuted by rotation of tensor factors. We then diagonalize the rotation action using the fusion product. This cyclic sieving generalizes the result of Rhoades, and of Fontaine-Kamnitzer (in type A), and is closely related to that of Westbury.