A Littlewood-type identity for Robbins polynomials
Combinatorics
2025-05-15 v1
Abstract
We provide a generalization of the Littlewood identity, both sides of which are related to alternating sign matrices. The classical Littlewood identity establishes a nice product formula for the sum of all Schur polynomials. Compared to the classical identity, Schur polynomials are replaced by so-called modified Robbins polynomials. These polynomials are a generalization of Schur polynomials and enumerate down-arrowed monotone triangles, and thus also alternating sign matrices. As an additional factor on the other side of the identity, we have a Pfaffian formula which we interpret in terms of the partition function of six-vertex model configurations corresponding to diagonally symmetric alternating sign matrices.
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@article{arxiv.2505.09275,
title = {A Littlewood-type identity for Robbins polynomials},
author = {Ilse Fischer and Hans Höngesberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09275},
year = {2025}
}
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