Skew divided difference operators and Schubert polynomials

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2007.072MaRDI QIDQ2473472zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anatol N. Kirillov

Publication date 27 February 2008

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4546, https://eudml.org/doc/54518, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2007/072/

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zbMATH Keywords

Bruhat orderdivided differencesLittlewood-Richardson problemnilCoxeter algebrasSchubert calculusSchubert polynomialsskew divided difference operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05)

Abstract: We study an action of the skew divided difference operators on the Schubert polynomials and give an explicit formula for structural constants for the Schubert polynomials in terms of certain weighted paths in the Bruhat order on the symmetric group. We also prove that, under certain assumptions, the skew divided difference operators transform the Schubert polynomials into polynomials with positive integer coefficients.

Review text

Schubert polynomials \({\mathfrak S}_w\), \(w\in S_n\), form a \(\mathbb Z\)-free basis of the factor ring of the polynomial ring \(P_n={\mathbb Z}[x_1,\ldots,x_n]\) modulo the ideal \(I_n\) generated by the symmetric polynomials without constant terms. The Littlewood-Richardson problem in the Schubert calculus is the problem of finding a combinatorial rule for computing the structural constants \(c_{uv}^w\), \(u,v,w \in S_n\), where \[ {\mathfrak S}_u{\mathfrak S}_v \equiv\sum_{w\in S_n}c_{uv}^w{\mathfrak S}_w \pmod{I_n}. \] In the paper under review the author studies the action of the skew divided difference operators \(\delta_{w\backslash v}\) on the Schubert polynomials and gives an explicit formula for \(c_{uv}^w\) in terms of certain weighted paths in the Bruhat order on \(S_n\). He makes the conjecture that \(\delta_{w\backslash u}{\mathfrak S}_v\) is a polynomial with nonnegative integer coefficients and proves it in special cases. Then the author finds the generating function of the structural constants \(c_{uv}^w\) in the nilCoxeter algebra. A list of open problems is also discussed.

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