Nonnegative Hall polynomials

DOI10.1023/A:1022407523839MaRDI QIDQ686971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lynne M. Butler, Alfred W. Hales

Publication date 13 October 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022407523839

zbMATH Keywords

finite abelian \(p\)-groupHall polynomialsymmetric functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15)

Review text

The authors show that the Hall polynomial \(g^ \lambda_{\mu \nu}(p)\), which countes the number of subgroups of type \(\mu\) and cotype \(\nu\) of a finite abelian \(p\)-group of type \(\lambda\), has all nonnegative coefficients if and only if no two parts of \(\lambda\) differ by more than one. The main tool is a class of certain order-preserving surjections from the lattice \(L_ \lambda(p)\) of subgroups of a finite abelian \(p\)- group of type \(\lambda\) onto the chain product \([0,\lambda]\), associating to each subgroup a vector dominated componentwise by \(\lambda\). Furthermore, they provide an order-theoretic characterization of those isomorphism types of finite abelian \(p\)-groups whose Hall polynomials have nonnegative coefficients.

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