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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

Reiner, Shaw and van Willigenburg showed that if two skew Schur functions s_A and s_B are equal, then the skew shapes A and B must have the same "row overlap partitions." Here we show that these row overlap equalities are also implied by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-13 Peter R. W. McNamara

The question of classifying when two skew Schur functions are equal is a substantial open problem, which remains unsolved for over a century. In 2022, Aliniaeifard, Li and van Willigenburg introduced skew Schur functions in noncommuting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Emma Yu Jin , Stephanie van Willigenburg

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

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

Using the vertex operator representations for symplectic and orthogonal Schur functions, we define two families of symmetric functions and show thatthey are the skew symplectic and skew orthogonal Schur polynomials defined implicitly by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Naihuan Jing , Zhijun Li , Danxia Wang

We define dual equivalence for any collection of combinatorial objects endowed with a descent set, and we show that giving a dual equivalence establishes the symmetry and Schur positivity of the quasi-symmetric generating function. We give…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Sami H. Assaf

We introduce two new bases of QSym, the flipped extended Schur functions and the backward extended Schur functions, as well as their duals in NSym, the flipped shin functions and the backward shin functions. These bases are the images of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Spencer Daugherty

In 2015, Jing and Li defined type B quasisymmetric Schur functions and conjectured that these functions have a positive, integral and unitriangular expansion into peak functions. We prove this conjecture, and refine their combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Ezgi Kantarcı Oğuz

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

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

In 2020, Hamaker, Pawlowski, and Sagan introduced the \emph{pattern quasisymmetric functions}, which are quasisymmetric functions associated with pattern-avoidance classes of permutations, and defined via expansions in fundamental…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Matthew Slattery-Holmes

We consider the problem of determining when the difference of two ribbon Schur functions is a single Schur function. We fully classify the five infinite families of pairs of ribbon Schur functions whose difference is a single Schur function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Foster Tom

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

A quasisymmetric function is assigned to every double poset (that is, every finite set endowed with two partial orders) and any weight function on its ground set. This generalizes well-known objects such as monomial and fundamental…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Darij Grinberg

In this paper, using the theory of category, we generalize known properties of symmetric polynomials and functions and characterize the multi-indicial symmetric functions. Examples have been given on Schur functions.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-09 Joseph Ben Geloun , Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou

The ring of cyclic quasi-symmetric functions and its non-Escher subring are introduced in this paper. A natural basis consists of fundamental cyclic quasi-symmetric functions; for the non-Escher subring they arise as toric $P$-partition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Ron M. Adin , Ira M. Gessel , Victor Reiner , Yuval Roichman

The classical theory of symmetric functions has a central position in algebraic combinatorics, bridging aspects of representation theory, combinatorics, and enumerative geometry. More recently, this theory has been fruitfully extended to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Oliver Pechenik , Dominic Searles

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 find a simple criterion for the equality $Q_\lambda=Q_{\mu/\nu}$ where $Q_\lambda$ and $Q_{\mu/\nu}$ are Schur's Q-functions on infinitely many variables.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hadi Salmasian