From symmetric fundamental expansions to Schur positivity

zbMATH Open1440.05206arXiv1508.07052MaRDI QIDQ5111030FDOQ5111030

Authors: Austin Roberts 

Publication date: 26 May 2020

Abstract: We consider families of quasisymmetric functions with the property that if a symmetric function $f$ is a positive sum of functions in one of these families, then f is necessarily a positive sum of Schur functions. Furthermore, in each of the families studied, we give a combinatorial description of the Schur coefficients of $f$. We organize six such families into a poset, where functions in higher families in the poset are always positive integer sums of functions in each of the lower families. This poset includes the Schur functions, the quasisymmetric Schur functions, the fundamental quasisymmetric generating functions of shifted dual equivalence classes, as well as three new families of functions --- one of which is conjectured to be a basis of the vector space of quasisymmetric functions. Each of the six families is realized as the fundamental quasisymmetric generating functions over the classes of some refinement of dual Knuth equivalence. Thus, we also produce a poset of refinements of dual Knuth equivalence. In doing so, we define quasi-dual equivalence to provide classes that generate quasisymmetric Schur functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07052

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zbMATH Keywords

positivitysymmetric functionsSchur functionsquasisymmetric functionsRSKKnuth equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05)

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