Compact formulas for Macdonald polynomials and quasisymmetric Macdonald polynomials (Q5918451)

The main result of the paper is two new combinatorial formulas for the modified and the integral form of the Macdonald polynomials. Additionally, the authors construct a new family of quasisymmetric functions and they show that these functions might be interpreted as the quasi-symmetric refinement of the Macdonald polynomials. The first formula presented by the authors is a compact formula for the modified form of the Macdonald polynomials and it resembles the Haglund-Haiman-Loehr (HHL) formula. The difference is that this new formula is more compact in the following sense: a combinatorial set that produces monomials in the formula is smaller in comparison with the HHL formula (where the combinatorial set consists of all the fillings of a given Young diagram). The authors are able to prove their formula by a careful analysis of the action of the operators acting on the fillings introduced in the previous work of \textit{N. A. Loehr} and \textit{E. Niese} [Ann. Comb. 16, No. 4, 815--828 (2012; Zbl 1256.05022)]. The second formula is a compact formula for the integral form of the Macdonald polynomials. The main ingredient of the proof is different than the one described above, and it is the formula obtained previously by \textit{S. Corteel} et al. [ Am. J. Math. 144, No. 2, 395--436 (2022; Zbl 1498.60385)] that expresses the \(P\)-form of the Macdonald polynomials as an explicit (and relatively easy) linear combination of permuted-basement Macdonald polynomials. Again, the compactness here means that the set of combinatorial objects is smaller in comparison to the formula presented by \textit{J. Haglund} [The \(q,t\)-Catalan numbers and the space of diagonal harmonics. With an appendix on the combinatorics of Macdonald's polynomials. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (2008; Zbl 1142.05074)].