• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.271-281
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• 2010

Inspired by the reduction formulae between intersection numbers on Grassmannians obtained by Griffiths-Harris and the factorization theorem of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients by King, Tollu and Toumazet, eight reduction formulae has been discovered by the author and others. In this paper, we prove r = 1 reduction formula by constructing a bijective map between suitable sets of Littlewood-Richardson tableaux.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.485-494
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• 2008

There are two well known reduction formulae for structural constants of the cohomology ring of Grassmannians, i.e., Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. Two reduction formulae are a conjugate pair in the sense that indexing partitions of one formula are conjugate to those of the other formula. A nice bijective proof of the first reduction formula is given in the authors' previous paper while a (combinatorial) proof for the second reduction formula in the paper depends on the identity between Littlewood-Richardson coefficients of conjugate shape. In this article, a direct bijective proof for the second reduction formula for Littlewood-Richardson coefficients is given. Our proof is independent of any previously known results (or bijections) on tableaux theory and supplements the arguments on bijective proofs of reduction formulae in the authors' previous paper.