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We introduce and study a generalization $s_{(\mu|\lambda)}$ of the Schur functions called the almost symmetric Schur functions. These functions simultaneously generalize the finite variable key polynomials and the infinite variable Schur…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Milo Bechtloff Weising

The ring of symmetric functions $\Lambda$, with natural basis given by the Schur functions, arise in many different areas of mathematics. For example, as the cohomology ring of the grassmanian, and as the representation ring of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Robin Langer

We present the basic elements of a generalization of symmetric function theory involving functions of commuting and anticommuting (Grassmannian) variables. These new functions, called symmetric functions in superspace, are invariant under…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-13 Patrick Desrosiers , Luc Lapointe , Pierre Mathieu

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 an equivalence relation on integer compositions and show that two ribbon Schur functions are identical if and only if their defining compositions are equivalent in this sense. This equivalence is completely determined by means of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-20 Louis J. Billera , Hugh Thomas , Stephanie van Willigenburg

We give a Littlewood-Richardson type rule for expanding the product of a row-strict quasisymmetric Schur function and a symmetric Schur function in terms of row-strict quasisymmetric Schur functions. This expansion follows from several new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-09 Jeffrey Ferreira

The classical algebra $\Lambda$ of symmetric functions has a remarkable deformation $\Lambda^*$, which we call the algebra of shifted symmetric functions. In the latter algebra, there is a distinguished basis formed by shifted Schur…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Andrei Okounkov , Grigori Olshanski

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

The classical Littlewood-Richardson rule is a rule for computing coefficients in many areas, and comes in many guises. In this paper we prove two Littlewood-Richardson rules for symmetric skew quasisymmetric Schur functions that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-14 Christine Bessenrodt , Vasu V. Tewari , Stephanie J. van Willigenburg

We describe a combinatorial formula for the coefficients when the dual immaculate quasisymmetric functions are decomposed into Young quasisymmetric Schur functions. We prove this using an analogue of Schensted insertion. Using this result,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Edward E. Allen , Joshua Hallam , Sarah K. Mason

The machinery of noncommutative Schur functions provides a general tool for obtaining Schur expansions for combinatorially defined symmetric functions. We extend this approach to a wider class of symmetric functions, explore its strengths…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Jonah Blasiak , Sergey Fomin

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

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

We introduce a new combinatorial object, semistandard increasing decomposition tableau and study its relation to a semistandard decomposition tableau introduced by Kra\'skiewicz and developed by Lam and Serrano. We also introduce…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Keiichi Shigechi

The theory of noncommutative Schur functions can be used to obtain positive combinatorial formulae for the Schur expansion of various classes of symmetric functions, as shown by Fomin and Greene. We develop a theory of noncommutative super…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Jonah Blasiak , Ricky Ini Liu

We consider a filtration of the symmetric function space given by $\Lambda^{(k)}_t$, the linear span of Hall-Littlewood polynomials indexed by partitions whose first part is not larger than $k$. We introduce symmetric functions called the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Lapointe , J. Morse

We begin by deriving an action of the 0-Hecke algebra on standard reverse composition tableaux and use it to discover 0-Hecke modules whose quasisymmetric characteristics are the natural refinements of Schur functions known as…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Vasu V. Tewari , Stephanie J. van Willigenburg

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

The double Schur functions form a distinguished basis of the ring \Lambda(x||a) which is a multiparameter generalization of the ring of symmetric functions \Lambda(x). The canonical comultiplication on \Lambda(x) is extended to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-26 A. I. Molev

Let $\lambda$ be a partition with no more than $n$ parts. Let $\beta$ be a weakly increasing $n$-tuple with entries from $\{ 1, ... , n \}$. The flagged Schur function in the variables $x_1, ... , x_n$ that is indexed by $\lambda$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Robert A. Proctor , Matthew J. Willis