Boolean product polynomials and Schur-positivity

zbMATH Open1411.05260arXiv1806.02943MaRDI QIDQ2632733FDOQ2632733

Authors: Billera, Louis J., Sara Billey, Vasu V. Tewari 

Publication date: 15 May 2019

Published in: Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a family of symmetric polynomials that we refer to as the Boolean product polynomials. The motivation for studying these polynomials stems from the computation of the characteristic polynomial of the real matroid spanned by the nonzero vectors in $mathbb{R}^n$ all of whose coordinates are either $0$ or $1$. To this end, one approach is to compute the zeros of the Boolean product polynomials over finite fields. The zero loci of these polynomials cut out hyperplane arrangements known as resonance arrangements, which show up in the context of double Hurwitz polynomials. By relating the Boolean product polynomials to certain total Chern classes of vector bundles, we establish their Schur-positivity by appealing to a result of Pragacz relying on earlier work on numerical positivity by Fulton-Lazarsfeld. Subsequently, we study a two-alphabet version of these polynomials from the viewpoint of Schur-positivity. As a special case of these polynomials, we recover symmetric functions first studied by D'esarm'enien and Wachs in the context of descents in derangements.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02943

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetric functionsSchur-positivityminimal balanced collectionsresonance hyperplane arrangementvector bundle methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10)

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