Properties of four partial orders on standard Young tableaux

Let SYT n be the set of all standard Young tableaux with n cells. After recalling the definitions of four partial orders, the weak, KL, geometric and chain orders on SYT n and some of their crucial properties, we prove three main results:• als in any of these four orders essentially describe the product in a Hopf algebra of tableaux defined by Poirier and Reutenauer. p sending a tableau to its descent set induces a homotopy equivalence of the proper parts of all of these orders on tableaux with that of the Boolean algebra 2 [ n − 1 ] . In particular, the Möbius function of these orders on tableaux is ( − 1 ) n − 3 . o of the four orders, one can define a more general order on skew tableaux having fixed inner boundary, and similarly analyze their homotopy type and Möbius function.