Transition formulas for involution Schubert polynomials

DOI10.1007/S00029-018-0423-1zbMATH Open1452.20002arXiv1609.09625OpenAlexW2528500585WikidataQ129553483 ScholiaQ129553483MaRDI QIDQ1783969FDOQ1783969

Authors: Zachary Hamaker, Eric Marberg, Brendan Pawlowski 

Publication date: 21 September 2018

Published in: Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The orbits of the orthogonal and symplectic groups on the flag variety are in bijection, respectively, with the involutions and fixed-point-free involutions in the symmetric group $S_n$. Wyser and Yong have described polynomial representatives for the cohomology classes of the closures of these orbits, which we denote as $hat{mathfrakS}_y$ (to be called involution Schubert polynomials) and $hat{mathfrakS}_y^{tFPF}$ (to be called fixed-point-free involution Schubert polynomials). Our main results are explicit formulas decomposing the product of $hat{mathfrakS}_y$ (respectively, $hat{mathfrakS}_y^{tFPF}$) with any $y$-invariant linear polynomial as a linear combination of other involution Schubert polynomials. These identities serve as analogues of Lascoux and Sch"utzenberger's transition formula for Schubert polynomials, and lead to a self-contained algebraic proof of the nontrivial equivalence of several definitions of $hat{mathfrakS}_y$ and $hat{mathfrakS}_y^{tFPF}$ appearing in the literature. Our formulas also imply combinatorial identities about involution words, certain variations of reduced words for involutions in $S_n$. We construct operators on involution words based on the Little map to prove these identities bijectively. The proofs of our main theorems depend on some new technical results, extending work of Incitti, about covering relations in the Bruhat order of $S_n$ restricted to involutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09625

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Symmetric groups (20B30) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27)

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