On a particular specialization of monomial symmetric functions
Abstract
Let be the monomial symmetric functions, being an integer partition of . For the specialization corresponding to the -deformation of the exponential, we prove that each is associated with a polynomial whose coefficients belong to . is a generalization of the case for which is the enumerator of tree inversions. Some relations between and are obtained, these having been defined algebraically in a previous work of the author for and being classically combinatorial enumerators with . From the calculation by induction of for , we conjecture that the coefficients of each are strictly positive and log-concave. As a consequence of Huh's Theorem on the -vector of matroid complex it is shown that the coefficients of are strictly positive and log-concave, which gives a second argument in favor of these conjectures. It is also proven that the last coefficients of are proportional to the first coefficients of column of Pascal's triangle, being the length of . This is a third argument to state the conjectures. The calculation of shows the existence of an obstacle, if one wants to prove the conjectures by application of Huh's theorem cited above.
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@article{arxiv.2306.15300,
title = {On a particular specialization of monomial symmetric functions},
author = {Vincent Brugidou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.15300},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
pp12. Changes compared to version 6: Exp(t) becomes Exq(t), Eq.(3.18) and (3.20) are combined into Corollary 3.7, the verification of the conjectures has been carried out up to n=43, the second part ii) of Proposition 4.4 as well as Remark 4.5 have been added, Section 6 has been reformulated, thanks to P. Bodart added, one reference deleted and 3 added