The probability of positivity in symmetric and quasisymmetric functions
Combinatorics
2021-03-29 v3
Abstract
Given an element in a finite-dimensional real vector space, , that is a nonnegative linear combination of basis vectors for some basis , we compute the probability that it is furthermore a nonnegative linear combination of basis vectors for a second basis, . We then apply this general result to combinatorially compute the probability that a symmetric function is Schur-positive (recovering the recent result of Bergeron--Patrias--Reiner), -positive or -positive. Similarly we compute the probability that a quasisymmetric function is quasisymmetric Schur-positive or fundamental-positive. In every case we conclude that the probability tends to zero as the degree of a function tends to infinity.
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@article{arxiv.1810.11038,
title = {The probability of positivity in symmetric and quasisymmetric functions},
author = {Rebecca Patrias and Stephanie van Willigenburg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11038},
year = {2021}
}