Ideals and quotients of diagonally quasi-symmetric functions (Q2363693)

Summary: \textit{J.-C. Aval} et al. [Adv. Math. 181, No. 2, 353--367 (2004; Zbl 1031.05127)] studied the algebra of diagonally quasi-symmetric functions \mathsf{DQSym} in the ring \(\mathbb{Q}[\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}]\) with two sets of variables. They made conjectures on the structure of the quotient \(\mathbb{Q}[\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}]/\langle\)\mathsf{DQSym}\(^+\rangle\), which is a quasi-symmetric analogue of the diagonal harmonic polynomials. In this paper, we construct a Hilbert basis for this quotient when there are infinitely many variables i.e. \(\mathbf{x}=x_1,x_2,\ldots\) and \(\mathbf{y}=y_1,y_2,\ldots\). Then we apply this construction to the case where there are finitely many variables, and compute the second column of its Hilbert matrix.