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We focus on the most recent results on various products of Schur functions which are multiplicity-free in the sense that the coefficients which arise in the expansion of these products of Schur functions as a sum of Schur functions are 0.1.
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This work was supported by the “National Group for Algebraic and Geometric Structures and their Applications” (GNSAGA-INDAM).
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Carini, L. (2021). On Various Multiplicity-Free Products of Schur Functions. In: Romeo, P.G., Volkov, M.V., Rajan, A.R. (eds) Semigroups, Categories, and Partial Algebras. ICSAA 2019. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 345. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4842-4_10
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