Clustering properties of rectangular Macdonald polynomials (Q747601)

Summary: The clustering properties of Jack polynomials are relevant in the theoretical study of the fractional Hall states. In this context, some factorization properties have been conjectured for the \((q,t)\)-deformed problem involving Macdonald polynomials (which are also the quantum eigenfunctions of a familly of commuting difference operators with significance in the relativistic Ruijsenaars-Schneider model). The present paper is devoted to the proof of this formula. To this aim we use four families of Jack/Macdonald polynomials: symmetric homogeneous, nonsymmetric homogeneous, shifted symmetric and shifted nonsymmetric.