Discrete Mathematics, Volume 193

Volume 193, Numbers 1-3, November 1998

• Mark D. Haiman:
  Introduction In honor of Adriano Garsia. 1-4
  
• Gian-Carlo Rota:
  Combinatorics, representation theory and invariant theory: The story of a ménage à trois (Inaugural address delivered at Taormina, Italy, 26 July, 1994). 5-16
  
• Joseph Alfano:
  A basis for the Y¹ subspace of diagonal harmonic polynomials. 17-31
  
• Edward E. Allen:
  A conjecture of a basis for the diagonal harmonic alternants. 33-42
  
• George E. Andrews:
  Pfaff's method (I): The Mills-Robbins-Rumsey determinant. 43-60
  
• Hélène Barcelo, Edwin C. Ihrig:
  Modular elements in the lattice L(A) when A is a real reflection arrangement. 61-68
  
• Sara Billey:
  Transition equations for isotropic flag manifolds. 69-84
  
• Anders Björner:
  A general homotopy complementation formula. 85-91
  
• Francesco Brenti:
  Kazhdan-Lusztig and R-polynomials from a combinatorial point of view. 93-116
  
• Joaquin O. Carbonara:
  A combinatorial interpretation of the inverse t-Kostka matrix. 117-145
  
• Luisa Carini, Jeffrey B. Remmel:
  Formulas for the expansion of the plethysms s₂[S_{(a, b)}] and S₂[S_(n^k)]. 147-177
  
• Sergey Fomin, Curtis Greene:
  Noncommutative schur functions and their applications. 179-200
  
• Mark D. Haiman:
  t, q-Catalan numbers and the Hilbert scheme. 201-224
  
• Claudia Malvenuto, Christophe Reutenauer:
  Plethysm and conjugation of quasi-symmetric functions. 225-233
  
• Stephen C. Milne, Gaurav Bhatnagar:
  A characterization of inverse relations. 235-245
  
• Ethan Reiner:
  Variation on a theme of Solomon. 247-255
  
• Jeffrey B. Remmel, Mark Shimozono:
  A simple proof of the Littlewood-Richardson rule and applications. 257-266
  
• Richard P. Stanley:
  Graph colorings and related symmetric functions: ideas and applications A description of results, interesting applications, & notable open problems. 267-286
  
• Michelle L. Wachs:
  On the (co)homology of the partition lattice and the free Lie algebra. 287-319