Fixed-point-free involutions and Schur P-positivity

DOI10.4310/JOC.2020.V11.N1.A4MaRDI QIDQ2335908zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Zachary Hamaker, Eric Marberg, Brendan Pawlowski

Publication date 18 November 2019

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

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

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)

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.

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