{ "id": "math/0409447", "version": "v1", "published": "2004-09-23T09:43:27.000Z", "updated": "2004-09-23T09:43:27.000Z", "title": "A simple proof of associativity and commutativity of LR-coefficients (or the hive ring)", "authors": [ "V. Danilov", "G. Koshevoy" ], "comment": "18 pages, 9 figures", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We give a simple bijective proof of associativity and commutativity of the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients or the hive ring. Specifically, we establish existence a polarized polymatroidal discretely concave functions on the tetrahedron with given boundary values at two adjoint faces.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2004-09-23T09:43:27.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "simple proof", "hive ring", "associativity", "commutativity", "lr-coefficients" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 18, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2004math......9447D" } } }