Demazure crystals for specialized nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials (Q2037167)

The authors give an explicit, nonnegative formula for the expansion of nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials specialized at \(t=0\) in terms of Demazure characters. They get their formula by constructing Demazure crystals whose characters are the nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials, and also give a new proof of the fact that these specialized Macdonald polynomials are positive graded sums of Demazure characters. They also obtain a new formula for the Schur expansion of Hall-Littlewood polynomials in terms of a simple statistic on highest weight elements of their crystals.