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A parking function interpretation for $(-1)^{k}\nabla m_{2^{k}1^{l}}$

Combinatorics 2025-06-24 v2

Abstract

Haglund, Morse, and Zabrocki introduced a family of creation operators of Hall-Littlewood polynomials, {Ca}\{C_{a}\} for any aZa\in \mathbb{Z}, in their compositional refinement of the shuffle (ex-)conjecture. For any αn\alpha\vDash n, the combinatorial formula for Cα\nabla C_{\alpha} is a weighted sum of parking functions. These summations can be converted to a weighted sum of certain LLT polynomials. Thus Cα\nabla C_{\alpha} is Schur positive since Grojnowski and Haiman proved that all LLT polynomials are Schur positive. In this paper, we obtain a recursion that implies the CC-positivity of (1)km2k1l(-1)^{k} m_{2^{k}1^{l}}, and hence prove the Schur positivity of (1)km2k1l(-1)^{k}\nabla m_{2^{k}1^{l}}. As a corollary, a parking function interpretation for (1)km2k1l(-1)^{k}\nabla m_{2^{k}1^{l}} is obtained by using the compositional shuffle theorem of Carlsson and Mellit.

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@article{arxiv.2312.16824,
  title  = {A parking function interpretation for $(-1)^{k}\nabla m_{2^{k}1^{l}}$},
  author = {Menghao Qu and Guoce Xin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.16824},
  year   = {2025}
}

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19 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T14:03:25.072Z