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Title: Sorting probabilities for Young diagrams and beyond

Speaker: Greta Panova Affiliation: University of Southern California Zoom: Contact Logan Crew or Olya Mandelshtam

Abstract:

Sorting probability for a partially ordered set P is defined as the min |Pr[x<y] - Pr[y<x]| going over all pairs of elements x,y in P, where Pr[x<y] is the probability that in a uniformly random linear extension (extension to total order) x appears before y.

The celebrated 1/3-2/3 conjecture states that for every poset the sorting probability is at most 1/3, i.e. there are two elements x and y, such that 1/3\leq Pr[x<y] \leq 2/3.