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In this paper we introduce doubly symmetric functions, arising from the equivalence of particular linear combinations of Schur functions and hook Schur functions. We study algebraic and combinatorial aspects of doubly symmetric functions,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-01 Allan Berele , Bridget Eileen Tenner

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 introduce a conjectural construction for an extension to superspace of the Macdonald polynomials. The construction, which depends on certain orthogonality and triangularity relations, is tested for high degrees. We conjecture a simple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 O. Blondeau-Fournier , P. Desrosiers , L. Lapointe , P. Mathieu

In this paper, we investigate the Schur positivity of modified Hall--Littlewood polynomials indexed by two-column partitions under the action of the $\nabla$ operator. Specifically, we resolve two conjectures posed by Bergeron, Garsia,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Menghao Qu

Motivated by Stanley's conjecture on the multiplication of Jack symmetric functions, we prove a couple of identities showing that skew Jack symmetric functions are semi-invariant up to translation and rotation of a $\pi$ angle of the skew…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Paolo Bravi , Jacopo Gandini

The product $s_\mu s_\nu$ of two Schur functions is one of the most famous examples of a Schur-positive function, i.e. a symmetric function which, when written as a linear combination of Schur functions, has all positive coefficients. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francois Bergeron , Peter McNamara

We prove Stanley's conjecture that, if delta_n is the staircase shape, then the skew Schur functions s_{delta_n / mu} are non-negative sums of Schur P-functions. We prove that the coefficients in this sum count certain fillings of shifted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-11 Federico Ardila , Luis G. Serrano

We prove Samuel's conjecture on certain Graham positivity of the expansion coefficient of two double Schubert polynomials in three sets of variables by establishing a refined version of Graham's positivity theorem. As a corollary, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Yibo Gao , Rui Xiong

When $\lambda$ is a partition, the specialized non-symmetric Macdonald polynomial $E_{\lambda}(x;q;0)$ is symmetric and related to a modified Hall--Littlewood polynomial. We show that whenever all parts of the integer partition $\lambda$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Per Alexandersson , Joakim Uhlin

The two variable Kostka functions are the scalar products of the Macdonald polynomials with the Schur polynomials with respect to the scalar product which makes the Hall-Littlewood polynomials pairwise orthogonal. A conjecture of Macdonald…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Friedrich Knop

Schubert polynomials were discovered by A. Lascoux and M. Sch\"utzenberger in the study of cohomology rings of flag manifolds in 1980's. These polynomials generalize Schur polynomials, and form a linear basis of multivariate polynomials. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Priyanka Mukhopadhyay , Youming Qiao

We introduce a new basis of the non-commutative symmetric functions whose commutative images are Schur functions. Dually, we build a basis of the quasi-symmetric functions which expand positively in the fundamental quasi-symmetric functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Chris Berg , Nantel Bergeron , Franco Saliola , Luis Serrano , Mike Zabrocki

We show that the shifted rank, or srank, of any partition $\lambda$ with distinct parts equals the lowest degree of the terms appearing in the expansion of Schur's $Q_{\lambda}$ function in terms of power sum symmetric functions. This gives…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-20 William Y. C. Chen , Donna Q. J. Dou , Robert L. Tang , Arthur L. B. Yang

For a given skew shape, we build a crystal graph on the set of all reverse plane partitions that have this shape. As a consequence, we get a simple extension of the Littlewood-Richardson rule for the expansion of the corresponding dual…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Pavel Galashin

We define a new family of symmetric functions which are affine analogues of Stanley symmetric functions. We establish basic properties of these functions including symmetry, dominance and conjugation. We conjecture certain positivity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Lam

Jack polynomials generalize several classical families of symmetric polynomials, including Schur polynomials, and are further generalized by Macdonald polynomials. In 1989, Richard Stanley conjectured that if the Littlewood-Richardson…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-16 Yusra Naqvi

We introduce two lifts of the dual immaculate quasisymmetric functions to the polynomial ring. We establish positive formulas for expansions of these dual immaculate slide polynomials into the fundamental slide and quasi-key bases for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Sarah Mason , Dominic Searles

To any Schur polynomial $s_{\lambda}$ one can associated its derived polynomials $s_{\lambda}{(i)}$ $i=0,\ldots,|\lambda|$ by the rule $$s_{\lambda}(x_1+t,\ldots,x_n+t) = \sum_i s_{\lambda}^{(i)}(x_1,\ldots,x_n) t^i.$$ We conjecture that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Julius Ross , Kuang-Yu Wu

In the seminal work of Stanley, several conjectures were made on the structure of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for the multiplication of Jack symmetric functions. Motivated by recent results of Alexandersson and the present author, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Ryan Mickler

Stanley symmetric functions are the stable limits of Schubert polynomials. In this paper, we show that, conversely, Schubert polynomials are Demazure truncations of Stanley symmetric functions. This parallels the relationship between Schur…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Sami Assaf , Anne Schilling