Fixed-point-free involutions and Schur P-positivity

DOI10.4310/JOC.2020.V11.N1.A4zbMATH Open1427.05226arXiv1706.06665MaRDI QIDQ2335908FDOQ2335908

Authors: Zachary Hamaker, Eric Marberg, Brendan Pawlowski 

Publication date: 18 November 2019

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

Abstract: The orbits of the symplectic group acting on the type A flag variety are indexed by the fixed-point-free involutions in a finite symmetric group. The cohomology classes of the closures of these orbits have polynomial representatives $hat{mathfrakS}_z^{tFPF}$ akin to Schubert polynomials. We show that the fixed-point-free involution Stanley symmetric functions $hat{F}_z^{tFPF}$, which are stable limits of the polynomials $hat{mathfrakS}_z^{tFPF}$, are Schur $P$-positive. To do so, we construct an analogue of the Lascoux-Sch"utzenberger tree, an algebraic recurrence that computes Schubert polynomials. As a byproduct of our proof, we obtain a Pfaffian formula of geometric interest for $hat{mathfrakS}_z^{tFPF}$ when $z$ is a fixed-point-free version of a Grassmannian permutation. We also classify the fixed-point-free involution Stanley symmetric functions that are single Schur $P$-functions, and show that the decomposition of $hat{F}_z^{tFPF}$ into Schur $P$-functions is unitriangular with respect to dominance order on strict partitions. These results and proofs mirror previous work by the authors related to the orthogonal group action on the type A flag variety.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06665

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zbMATH Keywords

Schubert polynomialsSchur \(P\)-positivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15)

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