The probability of positivity in symmetric and quasisymmetric functions

DOI10.4310/JOC.2020.V11.N3.A3zbMATH Open1441.05227arXiv1810.11038OpenAlexW3026015358MaRDI QIDQ2188741FDOQ2188741

Authors: Rebecca Patrias, Stephanie van Willigenburg 

Publication date: 11 June 2020

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

Abstract: Given an element in a finite-dimensional real vector space, $V$, that is a nonnegative linear combination of basis vectors for some basis $B$, we compute the probability that it is furthermore a nonnegative linear combination of basis vectors for a second basis, $A$. We then apply this general result to combinatorially compute the probability that a symmetric function is Schur-positive (recovering the recent result of Bergeron--Patrias--Reiner), $e$-positive or $h$-positive. Similarly we compute the probability that a quasisymmetric function is quasisymmetric Schur-positive or fundamental-positive. In every case we conclude that the probability tends to zero as the degree of a function tends to infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11038

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zbMATH Keywords

Young tableauKostka numbercomposition tableau\(e\)-positiveSchur-positivefundamental-positivequasisymmetric Schur-positive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45)

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