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A conjectural basis for the $(1,2)$-bosonic-fermionic coinvariant ring

Combinatorics 2026-04-08 v3

Abstract

We give the first conjectural construction of a monomial basis for the coinvariant ring Rn(1,2)R_n^{(1,2)}, for the symmetric group SnS_n acting on one set of bosonic (commuting) and two sets of fermionic (anticommuting) variables. Our construction interpolates between the modified Motzkin path basis for Rn(0,2)R_n^{(0,2)} of Kim-Rhoades (2022) and the super-Artin basis for Rn(1,1)R_n^{(1,1)} conjectured by Sagan-Swanson (2024) and proven by Angarone et al. (2025). We prove that our proposed basis has cardinality 2n1n!2^{n-1}n!, aligning with a conjecture of Zabrocki (2020) on the dimension of Rn(1,2)R_n^{(1,2)}, and show how it gives a combinatorial expression for the Hilbert series. We also conjecture a Frobenius series for Rn(1,2)R_n^{(1,2)}. We show that these proposed Hilbert and Frobenius series are equivalent to conjectures of Iraci, Nadeau, and Vanden Wyngaerd (2024) on Rn(1,2)R_n^{(1,2)} in terms of segmented Smirnov words, by exhibiting a weight-preserving bijection between our proposed basis and their segmented permutations. We extend some of their results on the sign character to hook characters, and give a formula for the mμm_\mu coefficients of the conjectural Frobenius series. Finally, we conjecture a monomial basis for the analogous ring in type BnB_n, and show that it has cardinality 4nn!4^nn!.

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@article{arxiv.2406.19715,
  title  = {A conjectural basis for the $(1,2)$-bosonic-fermionic coinvariant ring},
  author = {John Lentfer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19715},
  year   = {2026}
}

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33 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Final version

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