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We introduce a new class of combinatorial objects, named tight gradings, which are certain nonnegative integer-valued functions on maximal Dyck paths. Using tight gradings, we derive a manifestly positive formula for any wall-function in a…

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We present positivity conjectures for the Schur expansion of Jack symmetric functions in two bases given by binomial coefficients. Partial results suggest that there are rich combinatorics to be found in these bases, including Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Per Alexandersson , James Haglund , George Wang

We present positivity conjectures for the Schur expansion of Jack symmetric functions in two bases given by binomial coefficients. Partial results suggest that there are rich combinatorics to be found in these bases, including Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Per Alexandersson , James Haglund , George Wang

Cylindric skew Schur functions, which are a generalisation of skew Schur functions, arise naturally in the study of P-partitions. Also, recent work of A. Postnikov shows they have a strong connection with a problem of considerable current…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter McNamara

By considering type B analogs of permutations and tableaux, we extend abstract dual equivalence to type B in two directions. In one direction, we define involutions on signed permutations and shifted tableaux that give a weak dual…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Sami Assaf

Motivic Chern classes are elements in the K-theory of an algebraic variety $X$, depending on an extra parameter $y$. They are determined by functoriality and a normalization property for smooth $X$. In this paper we calculate the motivic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Paolo Aluffi , Leonardo C. Mihalcea , Jörg Schürmann , Changjian Su

The machinery of noncommutative Schur functions is a general approach to Schur positivity of symmetric functions initiated by Fomin-Greene. Hwang recently adapted this theory to posets to give a new approach to the Stanley-Stembridge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Jonah Blasiak , Holden Eriksson , Pavlo Pylyavskyy , Isaiah Siegl

Recently, Blasiak-Morse-Seelinger introduced symmetric functions called Katalan functions, and proved that the $K$-theoretic $k$-Schur functions due to Lam-Schilling-Shimozono form a subfamily of the Katalan functions. They conjectured that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Takeshi Ikeda , Shinsuke Iwao , Satoshi Naito

A graph is Schur-positive if its chromatic symmetric function expands nonnegatively in the Schur basis. All claw-free graphs are conjectured to be Schur-positive. We introduce a combinatorial object corresponding to a graph G, called a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Ethan Shelburne , Stephanie van Willigenburg

We study the torus equivariant K-homology ring of the affine Grassmannian $\mathrm{Gr}_G$ where $G$ is a connected reductive linear algebraic group. In type $A$, we introduce equivariantly deformed symmetric functions called the K-theoretic…

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We prove Okounkov's conjecture, a conjecture of Fomin-Fulton-Li-Poon, and a special case of Lascoux-Leclerc-Thibon's conjecture on Schur positivity and give several more general statements using a recent result of Rhoades and Skandera. An…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Thomas Lam , Alexander Postnikov , Pavlo Pylyavskyy

We construct a smooth projective variety $\mathscr X_\Psi$ that compactifies an equivariant vector subbundle of the cotangent bundle of the flag variety for $\mathrm{GL}(n)$, determined by a root ideal $\Psi$. A natural family of line…

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We prove a `motivic' analogue of the Weyl character formula, computing the Euler characteristic of a line bundle on a generalized flag manifold $G/B$ multiplied either by a motivic Chern class of a Schubert cell, or a Segre analogue of it.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Leonardo C. Mihalcea , Changjian Su , David Anderson

In this paper, we study a variation of a conjecture of Debarre on positivity of cotangent bundles of complete intersections. We establish the ampleness of Schur powers of cotangent bundles of generic complete intersections in projective…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-11 Antoine Etesse

Kirillov and Naruse have constructed double Grothendieck polynomials to represent the equivariant K-theory classes of Schubert varieties in the complete flag manifolds of types B, C, and D. We derive a recursive formula for these…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Eric Marberg

For closed $k$-Schur Katalan functions $\fg{\lambda}{k}$ with $k$ a positive integer and $\lambda$ a $k$-bounded partition, Blasiak, Morse and Seelinger proposed the alternating dual Pieri rule conjecture and the $k$-branching conjecture.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Yaozhou Fang , Xing Gao

In this paper we construct a GL-equivariant complex of Schur modules over a ring of positive characteristic that can be used to deduce classical alternating sum identities for Schur polynomials. This complex globalizes to a complex of…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Keller VandeBogert

A set of functions is defined which is indexed by a positive integer $n$ and partitions of integers. The case $n=1$ reproduces the standard Schur polynomials. These functions are seen to arise naturally as a determinant of an action on the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alex Kasman

We prove that the Schubert structure constants of the quantum $K$-theory ring of any minuscule flag variety or quadric hypersurface have signs that alternate with codimension. We also prove that the powers of the deformation parameter $q$…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Anders S. Buch , Pierre-Emmanuel Chaput , Leonardo C. Mihalcea , Nicolas Perrin

Cylindric Schur functions are a family of symmetric functions that generalize skew Schur functions. We give a short proof that skew cylindric Schur functions expand positively in terms of non-skew cylindric Schur functions. In particular,…

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