Stability properties of the plethysm: a combinatorial approach

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2016.10.009zbMATH Open1362.05127arXiv1505.03842OpenAlexW2203481694MaRDI QIDQ2397544FDOQ2397544

Laura Colmenarejo

Publication date: 22 May 2017

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

Abstract: An important family of structural constants in the theory of symmetric functions and in the representation theory of symmetric groups and general linear groups are the plethysm coefficients. In 1950, Foulkes observed that they have some stability properties: certain sequences of plethysm coefficients are eventually constant. Such stability properties were proven by Brion with geometric techniques, and by Thibon and Carr'e by means of vertex operators. In this paper we present a new approach to prove such stability properties.Our proofs are purely combinatorial and follow the same scheme. We decompose plethysm coefficients in terms of other plethysm coefficients related to the complete homogeneous basis of symmetric functions. We show that these other plethysm coefficients count integer points in polytopes and we prove stability for them by exhibiting bijections between the corresponding sets of integer points of each polytope.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03842

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zbMATH Keywords

combinatoricsstabilityrepresentation theorysymmetric functionsplethysm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Symmetric groups (20B30) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

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