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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

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 present a single operation for constructing skew diagrams whose corresponding skew Schur functions are equal. This combinatorial operation naturally generalises and unifies all results of this type to date. Moreover, our operation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Peter McNamara , Stephanie van Willigenburg

Plane partitions have been widely studied in Mathematics since MacMahon. See, for example, the works by Andrews, Macdonald, Stanley, Sagan and Krattenthaler. The Schur process approach, introduced by Okounkov and Reshetikhin, and further…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Guo-Niu Han , Huan Xiong

We study the space, $R_m$, of $m$-symmetric functions consisting of polynomials that are symmetric in the variables $x_{m+1},x_{m+2},x_{m+3},\dots$ but have no special symmetry in the variables $x_1,\dots,x_m$. We obtain $m$-symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Luc Lapointe

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

In work with A. Yong, the author introduced genomic tableaux to prove the first positive combinatorial rule for the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients in torus-equivariant $K$-theory of Grassmannians. We then studied the genomic Schur…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Oliver Pechenik

Mason and Remmel introduced a basis for quasisymmetric functions known as the row-strict quasisymmetric Schur functions. This basis is generated combinatorially by fillings of composition diagrams that are analogous to the row-strict…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Sarah K. Mason , Elizabeth Niese

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

Given an element in a finite-dimensional real vector space, $V$, that is a nonnegative linear combination of basis vectors for some basis $B$, we compute the probability that it is furthermore a nonnegative linear combination of basis…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Rebecca Patrias , Stephanie van Willigenburg

Normal crystals (also known as Stembridge crystals) are commonly used to establish the Schur positivity of symmetric functions, as their characters are sums of Schur polynomials. In this paper, we develop a combinatorial framework for a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Eric Marberg , Kam Hung Tong , Tianyi Yu

In this paper, we study shifted Schur functions $S_\mu^\star$, as well as a new family of shifted symmetric functions $\mathfrak{K}_\mu$ linked to Kostka numbers. We prove that both are polynomials in multi-rectangular coordinates, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Per Alexandersson , Valentin Féray

We introduce and study a generalization of Schur's $P$-/$Q$-functions associated to a polynomial sequence, which can be viewed as ``Macdonald's ninth variation'' for $P$-/$Q$-functions. This variation includes as special cases Schur's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Soichi Okada

The plethysm product of Schur functions corresponds to composing polynomial representations of infinite general linear groups. Finding the plethysm coefficients $\langle s_\nu \circ s_\mu, s_\lambda\rangle$ that express an arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Rowena Paget , Mark Wildon

We introduce new families of cylindric symmetric functions as subcoalgebras in the ring of symmetric functions $\Lambda$ (viewed as a Hopf algebra) which have non-negative structure constants. Combinatorially these cylindric symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Christian Korff , David Palazzo

A set of functions is introduced which generalizes the famous Schur polynomials and their connection to Grasmannian manifolds. These functions are shown to provide a new method of constructing solutions to the KP hierarchy of nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alex Kasman

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

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

In this paper we classify when (row-strict) dual immaculate functions and (row-strict) extended Schur functions, as well as their skew generalizations, are symmetric. We also classify when their natural variants, termed advanced functions,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Maria Esipova , Jinting Liang , Stephanie van Willigenburg

Fix an integer $t \geq 2$ and a primitive $t^{\text{th}}$ root of unity $\omega$. We consider the specialized skew hook Schur polynomial $\text{hs}_{\lambda/\mu}(X,\omega X,\dots,\omega^{t-1}X/Y,\omega Y,\dots,\omega^{t-1}Y)$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Nishu Kumari