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A basis for the Diagonal Harmonic Alternants

Combinatorics 2022-04-20 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

It will be shown here that there are differential operators E,FE,F and H=[E,F]H=[E,F] for each n1n\ge 1, acting on Diagonal Harmonics, yielding that DHnDH_n is a representation of sl[2]sl[2] (see [3] Chapter 3). Our main effort here is to use sl[2]sl[2] theory to predict a basis for the Diagonal Harmonic Alternants, DHAnDHA_n. It can be shown that the irreducible representations sl[2]sl[2] are all of the form P,EP,E2P,,EkPP,EP,E^2P,\cdots,E^kP, with FP=0FP=0 and Ek+1P=0E^{k+1}P=0. The polynomial PP is known to be called a "String Starter". From sl[2]sl[2] theory it follows that DHAnDHA_n is a direct sum of strings. Our main result so far is a formula for the number of string starters. A recent paper by Carlsson and Oblomkov (see [2]) constructs a basis for the space of Diagonal Coinvariants by Algebraic Geometrical tools. It would be interesting to see if any our results can be derived from theirs.

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@article{arxiv.2204.01812,
  title  = {A basis for the Diagonal Harmonic Alternants},
  author = {Adriano Garsia and Mike Zabrocki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.01812},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures

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