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Equality of Schur's Q-functions and Their Skew Analogues
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada
hs79@uwindsor.ca
Annals of Combinatorics 12 (3) pp.325-346 September, 2008
AMS Subject Classification: 05E05,05E10
Abstract:
We find a simple criterion for the equality $Q_\lambda=Q_{\mu/\nu}$ where $Q_\lambda$ and $Q_{\mu/\nu}$ are Schur's Q-functions on infinitely many variables.
Keywords: Schur Q-function, skew Schur Q-function, generalized shifted Young tableaux

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