{ "id": "0901.3633", "version": "v1", "published": "2009-01-23T09:36:09.000Z", "updated": "2009-01-23T09:36:09.000Z", "title": "A short geometric proof of a conjecture of Fulton", "authors": [ "Nicolas Ressayre" ], "categories": [ "math.AG", "math.RT" ], "abstract": "We give a new geometric proof of a conjecture of Fulton on the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. This conjecture was firstly proved by Knutson, Tao and Woodward using the Honeycomb theory. A geometric proof was given by Belkale. Our proof is based on the geometry of Horn's cones.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2009-01-23T09:36:09.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "short geometric proof", "conjecture", "littlewood-richardson coefficients", "honeycomb theory", "horns cones" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0901.3633R" } } }