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In this paper we classify all Schur functions and skew Schur functions that are multiplicity free when expanded in the basis of fundamental quasisymmetric functions, termed F-multiplicity free. Combinatorially, this is equivalent to classifying all skew shapes whose standard Young tableaux have distinct descent sets. We then generalize our setting, and classify all F-multiplicity free quasisymmetric Schur functions with one or two terms in the expansion, or one or two parts in the indexing composition. This identifies composition shapes such that all standard composition tableaux of that shape have distinct descent sets. We conclude by providing such a classification for quasisymmetric Schur function families, giving a classification of Schur functions that are in some sense almost F-multiplicity free.
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The authors’ collaboration was supported in part by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Bessenrodt, C., van Willigenburg, S. Multiplicity Free Schur, Skew Schur, and Quasisymmetric Schur Functions. Ann. Comb. 17, 275–294 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00026-013-0177-6
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