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Soo-Kook Kim

Sungkyunkwan University · Mathematics

About the Lab

Professor Soo-Kook Kim's research lab specializes in algebraic combinatorics, with a focus on symmetric functions, special polynomials, and their connections to polytopes, partitions, and orthogonal polynomials. The lab explores deep combinatorial structures such as noncrossing partitions, flow polytopes, and Young tableaux, often linking them to classical integrals like the Selberg integral and orthogonal polynomials such as Askey–Wilson. A central theme is the development of combinatorial proofs and interpretations for algebraic identities, including cyclic sieving phenomena and q-analogues of Catalan and Narayana numbers. The lab also investigates refined symmetric functions and their applications in representation theory and enumerative combinatorics.

algebraic combinatoricssymmetric functionsnoncrossing partitionsorthogonal polynomialscombinatorial special functions

Research Overview

Papers
127
Total Citations
510
Papers (5y)
26
Primary Field
Mathematics

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
26total
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2024
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2026
Citations per year (5y)
28total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|26 citations·2017
On the f-vectors of Gelfand–Cetlin polytopes
Byung Hee An, Yunhyung Cho, Jang Soo Kim
SJR Q1European Journal of CombinatoricsOA
Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
2
Article|23 citations·2011
Combinatorics on permutation tableaux of type A and type B
Sylvie Corteel, Jang Soo Kim
SJR Q1European Journal of Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
3
Article|16 citations·2017
Flow polytopes with Catalan volumes
Sylvie Corteel, Jang Soo Kim, Karola Mészáros
SJR Q2Comptes Rendus Mathématique

The Chan–Robbins–Yuen polytope can be thought of as the flow polytope of the complete graph with netflow vector <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mo>…</mml:mo> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> </mml:math> . The normalized volume of the Chan–Ro

Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
4
Article|16 citations·2017
On q-integrals over order polytopes
Jang Soo Kim, Dennis Stanton
SJR Q1Advances in Mathematics
Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
5
Article|15 citations·2016
THE SELBERG INTEGRAL AND YOUNG BOOKS
Jang Soo Kim, Suho Oh, Suho Oh

Abstract. The Selberg integral is an important integral first evaluated by Selberg in 1944. Stanley found a combinatorial interpretation of the Selberg integral in terms of permutations. In this paper, new combinatorial objects “Young books ” are introduced and shown to have a connection with the Selberg integral. This connection gives an enumeration formula for Young books. It is shown that special cases of Young books become standard Young tableaux of various shapes: shifted staircases, square

Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
6
Article|14 citations·2013
Dyck tilings, increasing trees, descents, and inversions
Jang Soo Kim, Karola Mészáros, Greta Panova, David B. Wilson
SJR Q1Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series AOA
Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
7
Article|11 citations·2010
Chain enumeration of k-divisible noncrossing partitions of classical types
Jang Soo Kim
SJR Q2Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer ScienceOA

We give combinatorial proofs of the formulas for the number of multichains in the $k-divisible$ noncrossing partitions of classical types with certain conditions on the rank and the block size due to Krattenthaler and Müller. We also prove Armstrong's conjecture on the zeta polynomial of the poset of k-divisible noncrossing partitions of type A invariant under the 180° rotation in the cyclic representation. Nous donnons une preuve combinatoire de la formule pour le nombre de multichaînes dans le

Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
8
Article|8 citations·2021
Combinatorics of orthogonal polynomials of type R_I
Jang Soo Kim, Dennis Stanton
SJR Q2The Ramanujan Journal
Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
9
Preprint|8 citations·2013
CYCLIC SIEVING PHENOMENA ON ANNULAR NONCROSSING PERMUTATIONS
Jang Soo Kim
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

We show cyclic sieving phenomena on annular noncrossing permutations with given cycle types. We define annular q-Kreweras numbers, annular q-Narayana numbers, and annular q-Catalan numbers, and show that a sum of annular q-Kreweras numbers be- comes an annular q-Narayana number and a sum of annular q-Narayana numbers becomes an annular q-Catalan number. We also show that these polynomials are closely related to the cyclic sieving phenomena on annular noncrossing permutations.

Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
10
Article|8 citations·2011
New interpretations for noncrossing partitions of classical types
Jang Soo Kim
SJR Q1Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
11
Article|6 citations·2015
Generalized Dyck tilings
Matthieu Josuat-Vergès, Jang Soo Kim
SJR Q1European Journal of CombinatoricsOA
Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
12
Preprint|6 citations·2021
Jacobi–Trudi formula for refined dual stable Grothendieck polynomials
Jang Soo Kim
SJR Q1Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series AOA
Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
13
Article|6 citations·2022
Jacobi–Trudi formulas for flagged refined dual stable Grothendieck polynomials
Jang Soo Kim
SJR Q1Algebraic CombinatoricsOA

Recently Galashin, Grinberg, and Liu introduced the refined dual stable Grothendieck polynomials, which are symmetric functions in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msub> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mo>...</mml:mo> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> with additional par

Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
14
Article|6 citations·2016
BOOTSTRAPPING AND ASKEY-WILSON POLYNOMIALS
Jang Soo Kim, Dennis Stanton, Dennis Stanton

The mixed moments for the Askey–Wilson polynomials are found using a bootstrapping method and connection coefficients. A similar bootstrapping idea on generating functions gives a new Askey–Wilson generating function. Modified generating functions of orthogonal polynomials are shown to generate polynomials satisfying recurrences of known degree greater than three. An important special case of this hierarchy is a polynomial which satisfies a four term recurrence, and its combinatorics is studied.

Applied MathematicsMathematics
15
Article|5 citations·2010
Chain enumeration of k-divisible noncrossing partitions of classical types
Jang Soo Kim
SJR Q1Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series AOA
Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics

Research Areas

Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsGeometry and TopologyCellular and Molecular NeuroscienceApplied MathematicsComputational Theory and MathematicsAlgebra and Number Theory

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