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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

Box-Ball Systems and Robinson-Schensted-Knuth Correspondence

Kaori Fukuda

DOI: 10.1023/B:JACO.0000022567.30060.3a

Abstract

We study a box-ball system from the viewpoint of combinatorics of words and tableaux. Each state of the box-ball system can be transformed into a pair of tableaux ( P, Q) by the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence. In the language of tableaux, the P-symbol gives rise to a conserved quantity of the box-ball system, and the Q-symbol evolves independently of the P-symbol. The time evolution of the Q-symbol is described explicitly in terms of the box-labels.

Pages: 67–89

Keywords: box-ball system; Robinson-Schensted-knuth correspondence; soliton cellular automaton; Young tableau; knuth equivalence

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