@article{EJP2930,
author = {Neil O'Connell and Yuchen Pei},
title = {A q-weighted version of the Robinson-Schensted algorithm},
journal = {Electron. J. Probab.},
fjournal = {Electronic Journal of Probability},
volume = {18},
year = {2013},
keywords = {q-Whittaker functions; Macdonald polynomials;},
abstract = {We introduce a q-weighted version of the Robinson-Schensted (column insertion) algorithm which is closely connected to q Whittaker functions (or Macdonald polynomials with t=0) and reduces to the usual Robinson-Schensted algorithm when q=0. The q-insertion algorithm is `randomised', or `quantum', in the sense that when inserting a positive integer into a tableau, the output is a distribution of weights on a particular set of tableaux which includes the output which would have been obtained via the usual column insertion algorithm. There is also a notion of recording tableau in this setting. We show that the distribution of weights of the pair of tableaux obtained when one applies the q-insertion algorithm to a random word or permutation takes a particularly simple form and is closely related to q-Whittaker functions. In the case $0\le q<1$, the q-insertion algorithm applied to a random word also provides a new framework for solving the q-TASEP interacting particle system introduced (in the language of q-bosons) by Sasamoto and Wadati (1998) and yields formulas which are equivalent to some of those recently obtained by Borodin and Corwin (2011) via a stochastic evolution on discrete Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns (or semistandard tableaux) which is coupled to the q-TASEP. We show that the sequence of P-tableaux obtained when one applies the q-insertion algorithm to a random word defines another, quite different, evolution on semistandard tableaux which is also coupled to the q-TASEP.},
pages = {no. 95, 1-25},
issn = {1083-6489},
doi = {10.1214/EJP.v18-2930},
url = {http://ejp.ejpecp.org/article/view/2930}}