Noncommutative Schur functions, switchboards, and Schur positivity

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DOI10.1007/S00029-016-0253-YzbMATH Open1355.05249arXiv1510.00657OpenAlexW2962753818WikidataQ105615935 ScholiaQ105615935MaRDI QIDQ508441FDOQ508441

Sergey Fomin, Jonah Blasiak

Publication date: 7 February 2017

Published in: Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The machinery of noncommutative Schur functions provides a general tool for obtaining Schur expansions for combinatorially defined symmetric functions. We extend this approach to a wider class of symmetric functions, explore its strengths and limitations, and obtain new results on Schur positivity. We introduce combinatorial gadgets called switchboards, an adaptation of the D graphs of S. Assaf, and show how symmetric functions associated to them (which include LLT, Macdonald, Stanley, and stable Grothendieck polynomials) fit into the noncommutative Schur functions approach. This extends earlier work by T. Lam, and by C. Greene and the second author, and provides new tools for obtaining combinatorial formulas for Schur expansions of LLT polynomials. This paper can be regarded as a "prequel" to (and, partly, a review of) arXiv:1411.3624, arXiv:1411.3646, and arXiv:1510.00644.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00657





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