August 2011
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The "n! conjecture" of Garsia and Haiman has inspired mathematicians for nearly two decades, even after Haiman published a proof in 2001. Kumar and Funch Thomsen proved in 2003 that in order to prove the conjecture for all partitions, it suffices to prove it for the so-called "staircase partitions" for each . In the present paper we give a construction of a specially designed two-dimensional family of length-n subschemes of the plane, and use that to prove the n! conjecture for staircase partitions. Together with the result of Kumar and Funch Thomsen, this provides a new proof of Haiman's theorem.