Two positivity conjectures for Kerov polynomials

DOI10.1016/J.AAM.2008.01.001MaRDI QIDQ950416zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michel Lassalle

Publication date 22 October 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2454

zbMATH Keywords

charactersfree cumulantsKerov polynomialssymmetric group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

Abstract: Kerov polynomials express the normalized characters of irreducible representations of the symmetric group, evaluated on a cycle, as polynomials in the free cumulants of the associated Young diagram. We present two positivity conjectures for their coefficients. The latter are stronger than the positivity conjecture of Kerov-Biane, recently proved by Feray.

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The main goal of this paper is to present two positivity conjectures with respect to Kerov polynomials.

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