A symmetry property for q-weighted Robinson-Schensted algorithms and other branching insertion algorithms

Abstract: In O'Connell-Pei(2013) a q-weighted version of the Robinson-Schensted algorithm was introduced. In this paper we show that this algorithm has a symmetry property analogous to the well known symmetry property of the normal Robinson-Schensted algorithm. The proof uses a generalisation of the growth diagram approach introduced by Fomin(1979,1986,1994,1995). This approach, which uses "growth graphs", can also be applied to a wider class of insertion algorithms which have a branching structure, including some of the other q-weighted versions of the Robinson-Schensted algorithm which have recently been introduced by Borodin-Petrov(2013).