Noncommutative Pieri operators on posets

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Abstract: We consider graded representations of the algebra NC of noncommutative symmetric functions on the Z-linear span of a graded poset P. The matrix coefficients of such a representation give a Hopf morphism from a Hopf algebra HP generated by the intervals of P to the Hopf algebra of quasi-symmetric functions. This provides a unified construction of quasi-symmetric generating functions from different branches of algebraic combinatorics, and this construction is useful for transferring techniques and ideas between these branches. In particular we show that the (Hopf) algebra of Billera and Liu related to Eulerian posets is dual to the peak (Hopf) algebra of Stembridge related to enriched P-partitions, and connect this to the combinatorics of the Schubert calculus for isotropic flag manifolds.


The theory developed links diverse areas of combinatorics and can be used to transfer techniques and ideas between them. More precisely, families of algebraic operators are introduced to select paths in a given poset or oriented multigraph and give rise to generating functions. This in turn induces a Hopf morphism, \(K\), from the Hopf algebra generated by the poset/oriented multigraph to the Hopf algebra of quasi-symmetric functions. It transpires that \(K\) appears frequently in the literature and specific instances include skew Schur functions, Ehrenborg's flat \(f\)-vector quasi-symmetric generating function, skew Schubert functions, Stanley symmetric functions of all types, noncommutative functions of Fomin and Greene and the weight enumerator of a labelled poset in both \(P\)-partition and enriched \(P\)-partition theory.



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