English

One-skeleton galleries, the path model and a generalization of Macdonald's formula for Hall-Littlewood polynomials

Representation Theory 2011-04-08 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We give a direct geometric interpretation of the path model using galleries in the 11-skeleton of the Bruhat-Tits building associated to a semi-simple algebraic group. This interpretation allows us to compute the coefficients of the expansion of the Hall-Littlewood polynomials in the monomial basis. The formula we obtain is a "geometric compression" of the one proved by Schwer, its specialization to the case An{\tt A}_n turns out to be equivalent to Macdonald's formula.

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@article{arxiv.1004.0066,
  title  = {One-skeleton galleries, the path model and a generalization of Macdonald's formula for Hall-Littlewood polynomials},
  author = {Stéphane Gaussent and Peter Littelmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0066},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

43 pages, 3 pictures, some improvements in the presentation, semistandard tableaux for type B and C defined