The umbral calculus of symmetric functions

DOI10.1006/AIMA.1996.0083MaRDI QIDQ677483zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miguel A. Méndez

Publication date 28 August 1997

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/aima.1996.0083

zbMATH Keywords

families of binomial typeHopf-algebraSchur functionssymmetric functionsumbral calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Umbral calculus (05A40) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05)

Review text

The author develops an umbral calculus for the symmetric functions in an infinite number of variables. This umbral calculus is analogous to Roman-Rota umbral calculus for polynomials in one variable, see \textit{S. M. Roman} and \textit{G.-C. Rota} [Adv. Math. 27, 95-188 (1978; Zbl 0375.05007)]. Although not explicit in the Roman-Rota treatment of umbral calculus, it is apparent that the underlying notion is the Hopf-algebra structure of the polynomials in one variable. To make the required analogy, the author uses the whole dual of the Hopf-algebra structure of the set of symmetric functions, to classify the algebra, coalgebra, and bialgebra maps in terms of symmetric functions of binomial type and admissable systems of functionals. Many examples of families of binomial type are studied, and the classical definition of Sheffer sequences of polynomials is extended to this context, and analogues of Bernoulli and Euler polynomials are introduced. The author also defines a family of symmetric functions of Schur type.

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