This talk is about the fundamental correspondence which assigns to every finite partially ordered set (poset) P a Ferrers shape lambda(P), and two applications. One of these is related to the Robinson-Schensted (RSK) correspondence between permutations and standard Young tableaux of the same Ferrers shape. The other relates to the sizes of the Jordan blocks of generic nilpotent elements in the incidence algebra of the poset P.
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