A \(q\)-analogue of the FKG inequality and some applications (Q653991)

In this paper a polynomial inequality which is a generalization of FKG inequality of \textit{C. M. Fortuin, P. W. Kasteleyn} and \textit{J. Ginibre} [Commun. Math. Phys. 22, 89--103 (1971; Zbl 0346.06011)] is proved. This coefficientwise inequality of real polynomials concerns pairs of monotonely increasing functions \(g,h :L\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}\) and a third log-supermodular function \(\mu :L\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}\), where \(L\) is a finite distributive lattice. Some specializations in the case of \(f\)-vectors of joins and face numbers of intersections of simplicial complexes, Poincaré polynomials and Betti numbers of intersections of Schubert varieties, correlation-type inequalities for a class of power series weighted by Young tableaux, series involving Plancherel measure for the symmetric groups and its poissonizations are proposed.