Bottom Schur functions

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Authors Peter Clifford, Richard P. Stanley

Publication date 25 April 2005

Published in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311382, https://eudml.org/doc/124547, http://www.emis.de/journals/EJC/Volume_11/Abstracts/v11i1r67.html

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zbMATH Keywords

border strip tableauxRogers-Ramanujan identitysymmetric functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10)

Abstract: We give a basis for the space V spanned by the lowest degree part hat{s}_lambda of the expansion of the Schur symmetric functions s_lambda in terms of power sums, where we define the degree of the power sum p_i to be 1. In particular, the dimension of the subspace V_n spanned by those hat{s}_lambda for which lambda is a partition of n is equal to the number of partitions of n whose parts differ by at least 2. We also show that a symmetric function closely related to hat{s}_lambda has the same coefficients when expanded in terms of power sums or augmented monomial symmetric functions. Proofs are based on the theory of minimal border strip decompositions of Young diagrams.

Review text

Summary: We give a basis for the space spanned by the sum \(\widehat{s}_\lambda\) of the lowest degree terms in the expansion of the Schur symmetric functions \(s_\lambda\) in terms of the power sum symmetric functions \(p_\mu\), where deg\((p_i)=1\). These lowest degree terms correspond to minimal border strip tableaux of \(\lambda\). The dimension of the space spanned by \(\widehat{s}_\lambda\), where \(\lambda\) is a partition of \(n\), is equal to the number of partitions of \(n\) into parts differing by at least 2. Applying the Rogers-Ramanujan identity, the generating function also counts the number of partitions of \(n\) into parts \(5k+1\) and \(5k-1\). We also show that a symmetric function closely related to \(\widehat{s}_\lambda\) has the same coefficients when expanded in terms of power sums or augmented monomial symmetric functions.

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