Difference operators for partitions and some applications

DOI10.1007/S00026-018-0385-1MaRDI QIDQ1653313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guo-Niu Han, Huan Xiong

Publication date 3 August 2018

Published in Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00772

zbMATH Keywords

contentdifference operatorhook lengthpartitionstandard Young tableau

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81)

Abstract: Motivated by the Nekrasov-Okounkov formula on hook lengths, the first author conjectured that the Plancherel average of the $2k$-th power sum of hook lengths of partitions with size $n$ is always a polynomial of $n$ for any $kinmathbbN$. This conjecture was generalized and proved by Stanley (Ramanujan J., 23(1--3): 91--105, 2010). In this paper, inspired by the work of Stanley and Olshanski on the differential poset of Young lattice, we study the properties of two kinds of difference operators $D$ and $D^{-}$ defined on functions of partitions. Even though the calculations for higher orders of $D$ are extremely complex, we prove that several well-known families of functions of partitions are annihilated by a power of the difference operator $D$. As an application, our results lead to several generalizations of classic results on partitions, including the marked hook formula, Stanley Theorem, Okada-Panova hook length formula, and Fujii-Kanno-Moriyama-Okada content formula. We insist that the Okada constants $K_r$ arise directly from the computation for a single partition $lambda$, without the summation ranging over all partitions of size~$n$.

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