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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,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Alexander Dobner

Genomic Schur functions were introduced by Pechenik and Yong in connection with the $K$-theory of Grassmannians. Pechenik proved that genomic Schur functions admit a positive expansion in the basis of fundamental quasisymmetric functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Young-Hun Kim

Egge, Loehr and Warrington gave in \cite{ELW} a combinatorial formula that permits to convert the expansion of a symmetric function, homogeneous of degree $n$, in terms of Gessel's fundamental quasisymmetric functions into an expansion in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Adriano Garsia , Jeffrey Remmel

We study multiplication of any Schubert polynomial $\mathfrak{S}_w$ by a Schur polynomial $s_\lambda$ (the Schubert polynomial of a Grassmannian permutation) and the expansion of this product in the ring of Schubert polynomials. We derive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Karola Meszaros , Greta Panova , Alexander Postnikov

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. By constructing a graph on ribbon…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Sami H. Assaf

We make a broad conjecture about the $k$-Schur positivity of Catalan functions, symmetric functions which generalize the (parabolic) Hall-Littlewood polynomials. We resolve the conjecture with positive combinatorial formulas in cases which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Jonah Blasiak , Jennifer Morse , Anna Pun , Daniel Summers

We prove some Schur positivity results for the chromatic symmetric function $X_G$ of a (hyper)graph $G$, using connections to the group algebra of the symmetric group. The first such connection works for (hyper)forests $F$: we describe the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Brendan Pawlowski

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 explain how genomic tableaux [Pechenik-Yong '15] are a semistandard complement to increasing tableaux [Thomas-Yong '09]. From this perspective, one inherits genomic versions of jeu de taquin, Knuth equivalence, infusion and Bender-Knuth…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Oliver Pechenik , Alexander Yong

We study a multi-symmetric generalization of the classical Schur functions called the multi-symmetric Schur functions. These functions form an integral basis for the ring of multi-symmetric functions indexed by tuples of partitions and are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Milo Bechtloff Weising

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 positive combinatorial formula for the Schur expansion of LLT polynomials indexed by a 3-tuple of skew shapes. This verifies a conjecture of Haglund. The proof requires expressing a noncommutative Schur function as a positive sum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Jonah Blasiak

Cylindric skew Schur functions, a generalization of skew Schur functions, are closely related to the famous problem finding a combinatorial formula for the 3-point Gromov-Witten invariants of Grassmannian. In this paper, we prove cylindric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Seung Jin Lee

Using the combinatorics of $\alpha$-unimodal sets, we establish two new results in the theory of quasisymmetric functions. First, we obtain the expansion of the fundamental basis into quasisymmetric power sums. Secondly, we prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Per Alexandersson , Robin Sulzgruber

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

Egge, Loehr, and Warrington proved a formula for the Schur function expansion of a symmetric function in terms of its expansion in fundamental quasi-symmetric functions. Their formula involves the coefficients of a modified inverse Kostka…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Ira M. Gessel

We establish a poset structure on combinatorial bases of multivariate polynomials defined by positive expansions, and study properties common to bases in this poset. Included are the well-studied bases of Schubert polynomials, Demazure…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Dominic Searles

We use dual equivalence to give a short, combinatorial proof that Stanley symmetric functions are Schur positive. We introduce weak dual equivalence, and use it to give a short, combinatorial proof that Schubert polynomials are key…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Sami Assaf

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 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