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We show that sequences of skew Schur polynomials obtained from stretched semi-standard Young tableaux satisfy a linear recurrence, which we give explicitly. Using this, we apply this to finding certain asymptotic behavior of these Schur…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Per Alexandersson

We make a systematic study of a new combinatorial construction called a dual equivalence graph. We axiomatize these graphs and prove that their generating functions are symmetric and Schur positive. This provides a universal method for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Sami H. Assaf

We suggest the point of view that the Schubert classes of the affine Grassmannian of a simple algebraic group should be considered as Schur-positive symmetric functions. In particular, we give a geometric explanation of the Schur positivity…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Thomas Lam

We continue the study of real polynomials acting entrywise on matrices of fixed dimension to preserve positive semidefiniteness, together with the related analysis of order properties of Schur polynomials. Previous work has shown that,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Alexander Belton , Dominique Guillot , Apoorva Khare , Mihai Putinar

We introduce partially defined Schur multipliers and obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of extensions to fully defined positive Schur multipliers, in terms of operator systems canonically associated with their…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Rupert H. Levene , Ying-Fen Lin , Ivan G. Todorov

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

In this paper, we introduce a family of symmetric polynomials by specializing the factorial Schur polynomials. These polynomials represent the weighted Schubert classes of the cohomology of the weighted Grassmannian introduced by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-02 Hiraku Abe , Tomoo Matsumura

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

We define skew Schubert polynomials to be normal form (polynomial) representatives of certain classes in the cohomology of a flag manifold. We show that this definition extends a recent construction of Schubert polynomials due to Bergeron…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-29 Cristian Lenart , Frank Sottile

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

We show that normalized Schur polynomials are strongly log-concave. As a consequence, we obtain Okounkov's log-concavity conjecture for Littlewood-Richardson coefficients in the special case of Kostka numbers.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-27 June Huh , Jacob P. Matherne , Karola Mészáros , Avery St. Dizier

Polynomial representations of general linear groups and modules over Schur algebras are compared. We work over an arbitrary commutative ring and show that Schur-Weyl duality is the key for an equivalence between both categories.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Henning Krause

Chern plethysm (introduced by Billey, Rhoades, and Tewari) is a geometric way to produce Schur positive symmetric polynomials. We present combinatorial interpretations for the Schur expansions of special cases of Chern plethysm. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Nathaniel Libman , Gidon Orelowitz

For the Schur polynomials bounded and unbounded generalizations of the Cauchy identities are found.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Leonid Bedratyuk

We consider the Ehrhart polynomial of hypersimplices. It is proved that these polynomials have positive coefficients and we give a combinatorial formula for each of them. This settles a problem posed by Stanley and also proves that uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Luis Ferroni

For each positive integer n, we define a polynomial in the variables z_1,...,z_n with coefficients in the ring $\mathbb{Q}[q,t,r]$ of polynomial functions of three parameters q, t, r. These polynomials naturally arise in the context of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-13 Kyungyong Lee

We introduce a class of Schur type functions associated with polynomial sequences of binomial type. This can be regarded as a generalization of the ordinary Schur functions and the factorial Schur functions. This generalization satisfies…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2008-11-04 Minoru Itoh

We extend the family of classical Schur algebras in type A, which determine the polynomial representation theory of general linear groups over an infinite field, to a larger family, the rational Schur algebras, which determine the rational…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-11-17 Richard Dipper , Stephen Doty

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

Binomial formulas for Schur polynomials and Jack polynomials were studied by Lascoux in 1978, and Kaneko, Okounkov--Olshanski and Lassalle in the 1990s. We prove that the associated binomial coefficients are monotone and derive some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Hong Chen , Siddhartha Sahi