Abacus-histories and the combinatorics of creation operators

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2020.105330zbMATH Open1448.05217arXiv2009.06684OpenAlexW3085538744MaRDI QIDQ2005201FDOQ2005201

Gregory S. Warrington, Nicholas A. Loehr

Publication date: 7 October 2020

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Creation operators act on symmetric functions to build Schur functions, Hall--Littlewood polynomials, and related symmetric functions one row at a time. Haglund, Morse, Zabrocki, and others have studied more general symmetric functions $H_{alpha}$, $C_{alpha}$, and $B_{alpha}$ obtained by applying any sequence of creation operators to $1$. We develop new combinatorial models for the Schur expansions of these and related symmetric functions using objects called abacus-histories. These formulas arise by chaining together smaller abacus-histories that encode the effect of an individual creation operator on a given Schur function. We give a similar treatment for operators such as multiplication by $h_m$, $h_m^{perp}$, $omega$, etc., which serve as building blocks to construct the creation operators. We use involutions on abacus-histories to give bijective proofs of properties of the Bernstein creation operator and Hall-Littlewood polynomials indexed by three-row partitions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06684

zbMATH Keywords

Hall-Littlewood polynomialslattice pathsBernstein operatorsSchur functionssemistandard tableauxabacicreation operatorsabacus historiesHMZ operatorsJing operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10)

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• Abacus as a Programming Language: Computer Science and History of Mathematics

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• SageMath
• Python

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