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Dual equivalence graphs I: A new paradigm for Schur positivity

Combinatorics 2020-03-05 v1

Abstract

We make a systematic study of a new combinatorial construction called a dual equivalence graph. We axiomatize these graphs and prove that their generating functions are symmetric and Schur positive. This provides a universal method for establishing the symmetry and Schur positivity of quasisymmetric functions.

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@article{arxiv.1506.03798,
  title  = {Dual equivalence graphs I: A new paradigm for Schur positivity},
  author = {Sami H. Assaf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03798},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

24 pages, 27 figures, to appear in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1005.3759