Noncommutative symmetric functions

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DOI10.1006/AIMA.1995.1032zbMATH Open0831.05063arXivhep-th/9407124OpenAlexW1659648688MaRDI QIDQ1804810FDOQ1804810


Authors: Bernard Leclerc, Vladimir Retakh, Jean-Yves Thibon, I. M. Gel'fand, Daniel Krob, Alain Lascoux Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 February 1996

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper presents a noncommutative theory of symmetric functions, based on the notion of quasi-determinant. We begin with a formal theory, corresponding to the case of symmetric functions in an infinite number of independent variables. This allows us to endow the resulting algebra with a Hopf structure, which leads to a new method for computing in descent algebras. It also gives unified reinterpretation of a number of classical constructions. Next, we study the noncommutative analogs of symmetric polynomials. One arrives at different constructions, according to the particular kind of application under consideration. For example, when a polynomial with noncommutative coefficients in one central variable is decomposed as a product of linear factors, the roots of these factors differ from those of the expanded polynomial. Thus, according to whether one is interested in the construction of a polynomial with given roots or in the expansion of a product of linear factors, one has to consider two distinct specializations of the formal symmetric functions. A third type appears when one looks for a noncommutative generalization of applications related to the notion of characteristic polynomial of a matrix. This construction can be applied, for instance, to the noncommutative matrices formed by the generators of the universal enveloping algebra U(gln) or of


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9407124




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