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Some new relations on skew Schur function differences are established both combinatorially using Sch\"utzenberger's jeu de taquin, and algebraically using Jacobi-Trudi determinants. These relations lead to the conclusion that certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Ronald C. King , Trevor A. Welsh , Stephanie J. van Willigenburg

This paper presents a noncommutative theory of symmetric functions, based on the notion of quasi-determinant. We begin with a formal theory, corresponding to the case of symmetric functions in an infinite number of independent variables.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Israel Gelfand , D. Krob , Alain Lascoux , B. Leclerc , V. S. Retakh , J. -Y. Thibon

Characterizing sets of permutations whose associated quasisymmetric function is symmetric and Schur-positive is a long-standing problem in algebraic combinatorics. In this paper we present a general method to construct Schur-positive sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Sergi Elizalde , Yuval Roichman

The involution Stanley symmetric functions $\hat{F}_y$ are the stable limits of the analogues of Schubert polynomials for the orbits of the orthogonal group in the flag variety. These symmetric functions are also generating functions for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Zachary Hamaker , Eric Marberg , Brendan Pawlowski

We exhibit a weight-preserving bijection between semi-standard Young tableaux and semi-skyline augmented fillings to provide a combinatorial proof that the Schur functions decompose into nonsymmetric functions indexed by compositions. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Sarah Mason

We study a linear map on symmetric functions that ``divides'' a partition by a positive integer $k$, sending a Schur function indexed by a partition of $kn$ to a symmetric function indexed by partitions of $n$. We determine its Schur…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Per Alexandersson , Lilan Dai

In recent years, Alexandersson and others proved combinatorial formulas for the Schur function expansion of the horizontal-strip LLT polynomial $G_\lambda(x;q)$ in some special cases. We associate a weighted graph $\Pi$ to $\lambda$ and we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Foster Tom

This paper uses the theory of dual equivalence graphs to give explicit Schur expansions for several families of symmetric functions. We begin by giving a combinatorial definition of the modified Macdonald polynomials and modified…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-31 Austin Roberts

We give a combinatorial expansion of a Schubert homology class in the affine Grassmannian Gr_{SL_k} into Schubert homology classes in Gr_{SL_{k+1}}. This is achieved by studying the combinatorics of a new class of partitions called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-02 Thomas Lam , Luc Lapointe , Jennifer Morse , Mark Shimozono

We continue our development of a new basis for the algebra of non-commutative symmetric functions. This basis is analogous to the Schur basis for the algebra of symmetric functions, and it shares many of its wonderful properties. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Chris Berg , Nantel Bergeron , Franco Saliola , Luis Serrano , Mike Zabrocki

The plethystic transformation $f[X] \mapsto f[X/(1-t)]$ and LLT polynomials are central to the theory of symmetric Macdonald polynomials. In this work, we introduce and study nonsymmetric flagged LLT polynomials. We show that these admit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Jonah Blasiak , Mark Haiman , Jennifer Morse , Anna Pun , George H. Seelinger

In this paper, we study shifted Schur functions $S_\mu^\star$, as well as a new family of shifted symmetric functions $\mathfrak{K}_\mu$ linked to Kostka numbers. We prove that both are polynomials in multi-rectangular coordinates, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Per Alexandersson , Valentin Féray

In 2004 Rosas and Sagan asked whether there was a way to define a basis in the algebra of symmetric functions in noncommuting variables, NCSym, having properties analogous to the classical Schur functions. This was because they had…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Farid Aliniaeifard , Shu Xiao Li , Stephanie van Willigenburg

The aim of this note is to introduce a compound basis for the space of symmetric functions. Our basis consists of products of Schur functions and $Q$-functions. The basis elements are indexed by the partitions. It is well known that the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kazuya Aokage , Hiroshi Mizukawa , Hiro-Fumi Yamada

In the Hopf algebra of symmetric functions, Sym, the basis of Schur functions is distinguished since every Schur function is isomorphic to an irreducible character of a symmetric group under the Frobenius characteristic map. In this note we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Stephanie van Willigenburg

We give a combinatorial proof that the product of a Schubert polynomial by a Schur polynomial is a nonnegative sum of Schubert polynomials. Our proof uses Assaf's theory of dual equivalence to show that a quasisymmetric function of Bergeron…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Sami Assaf , Nantel Bergeron , Frank Sottile

We introduce the new combinatorial approach of plethystic type of tableaux, as a method to understand coefficients of Schur functions appearing in plethysms $s_\nu[h_\lambda]$ and $s_{\nu}[e_{\lambda}]$, for any partitions $\lambda$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Florence Maas-Gariépy , Étienne Tétreault

It is an important problem in algebraic combinatorics to deduce the Schur function expansion of a symmetric function whose expansion in terms of the fundamental quasisymmetric function is known. For example, formulas are known for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Rosa Orellana , Franco Saliola , Anne Schilling , Mike Zabrocki

We prove a Murnaghan-Nakayama rule for the noncommutative Schur functions introduced by Bessenrodt, Luoto and van Willigenburg. In other words, we give an explicit combinatorial formula for expanding the product of a noncommutative power…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Vasu V. Tewari

H.Choi-D.Kim-S.J.Lee and S.J.Lee introduced a new kind of tableaux, semistandard oscillating tableaux (SSOT), around 2024 in the context of Lusztig $q$-weight multiplicities, KR crystals and King tableaux. In this paper, we study generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Masato Kobayashi , Tomoo Matsumura , Shogo Sugimoto