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Two positivity conjectures for Kerov polynomials

Combinatorics 2008-09-07 v4 Representation Theory

Abstract

Kerov polynomials express the normalized characters of irreducible representations of the symmetric group, evaluated on a cycle, as polynomials in the free cumulants of the associated Young diagram. We present two positivity conjectures for their coefficients. The latter are stronger than the positivity conjecture of Kerov-Biane, recently proved by Feray.

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@article{arxiv.0710.2454,
  title  = {Two positivity conjectures for Kerov polynomials},
  author = {Michel Lassalle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.2454},
  year   = {2008}
}

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15 pages, LaTeX, final version, to appear in Adv. Appl. Math

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