Positive expressions for skew divided difference operators

Abstract: For permutations

v, w i n m a t h f r a k S_{n}

, Macdonald defines the skew divided difference operators

p a r t i a l_{w / v}

as the unique linear operators satisfying

p a r t i a l_{w} (P Q) = s u m_{v} v (p a r t i a l_{w / v} P) c d o t p a r t i a l_{v} Q

for all polynomials

P

and

Q

. We prove that

p a r t i a l_{w / v}

has a positive expression in terms of divided difference operators

p a r t i a l_{i j}

for

i < j

. In fact, we prove that the analogous result holds in the Fomin-Kirillov algebra

m a t h c a l E_{n}

, which settles a conjecture of Kirillov.

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