The exact dimension determinant #
Row-normalizing the Jacobi–Trudi determinant at the delta sequence by the staircase factorials turns its entries into descending Pochhammer evaluations; reversing both indices removes all signs and evaluates the determinant as a manifestly positive Vandermonde product of staircase differences.
The row-normalized dimension determinant: the Jacobi–Trudi determinant at the delta sequence times the staircase factorials is the Vandermonde product of the staircase differences.