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{\bf Peter A. H\"ast\"o}
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{\bf On Descents in Standard Young Tableaux}
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In this paper, explicit formulae for the expectation and the
variance of descent functions on random standard Young tableaux are presented.
Using these, it is shown that the normalized variance, $V/E^2$, is bounded
if and only if a certain inequality relating the tableau shape to the
descent function
holds.


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