The mystery of plethysm coefficients
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Publication:6407897
arXiv2208.07258MaRDI QIDQ6407897FDOQ6407897
Authors: Laura Colmenarejo, Rosa Orellana, Franco Saliola, Anne Schilling, Mike Zabrocki 
Publication date: 15 August 2022
Abstract: Composing two representations of the general linear groups gives rise to Littlewood's (outer) plethysm. On the level of characters, this poses the question of finding the Schur expansion of the plethysm of two Schur functions. A combinatorial interpretation for the Schur expansion coefficients of the plethysm of two Schur functions is, in general, still an open problem. We identify a proof technique of combinatorial representation theory, which we call the "-perp trick", and point out several examples in the literature where this idea is used. We use the -perp trick to give algorithms for computing monomial and Schur expansions of symmetric functions. In several special cases, these algorithms are more efficient than those currently implemented in {sc SageMath}.
Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10)
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