Questions tagged [schur-functions]
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Irreducibility of Schur polynomials
A natural question covering both this and this question would be
Let $n>2$. Describe Young diagrams $\lambda$ with at most $n$ nonempty rows (or equivalently non-increasing sequences $\lambda=(\...
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A class of matrix determinants between Wronskians and Vandermondes
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Let $M$ be an $n\times n$ matrix that's constructed as follows. Construct the right-most column of $M$ as $[\alpha_1(x_1),\cdots,\alpha_n(x_n)]^T$ for some class of fixed functions $...
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Majorization and Schur Polynomials
Let me first define the majorization order (or dominance order) on partitions as $\lambda \succeq \mu$ iff $$\sum _{i=1}^{k}\lambda_i \geq \sum_{i=1}^{k}\mu_i$$ for all $1\le k\le l-1$ and $$\lambda_1+...
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Bounding Schur symmetric polynomials on the unit circle
Recall the Schur polynomial in $n$ variables, indexed by the partition $\lambda$, with $\ell(\lambda) \leq n$, is given by
\begin{equation}
s_\lambda(x_1,\ldots, x_n) = a_{\lambda + \delta}(x_1, \...
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Generalization of Cauchy's identity
Let $ s_{\lambda} $ be the Schur function associated to the partition $ \lambda $.
Cauchy's identity (as in Macdonald) states that
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\sum_{\lambda} s_{\lambda}(X)s_{\lambda}(Y) = \prod_{i,j}(1-...
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Why do we care about Schur Positivity
Some of the most important open problems in Algebraic Combinatorics concern the Schur positivity of classes of symmetric functions. Why is this an important property to have?
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Most computationally efficient Littlewood-Richardson rule
There are many, many different versions of the Littlewood-Richardson rule: the original characterization via Yamanouchi words, Remmel's version, a description via the Poirier-Reutenauer bialgebra, the ...
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An identity related to partitions into $n$ parts and Schur polynomials
While working with Schur polynomials I found what seems like a nice identity, and I wonder if it has a simple proof.
Notation: Suppose $d,n\in\mathbb{N}$, and $\lambda =(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_n)$ ...
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a variational problem related to weighted logarithmic capacity
Consider the following multiple contour integral:
$$ \Phi_\lambda := \oint \ldots \oint \prod_{1 \le j < k \le n} (z_j^{-1} - z_k^{-1}) \prod_{j=1}^n \prod_{k=1}^n (1 - z_j x_k)^{-1} \prod_{j=1}^n ...
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Nonnegativity locus of Schur polynomials
Let $a_1,\ldots,a_n \in \mathbb{C}$ be complex numbers that are the zeros of a real polynomial (meaning that the non-real ones come in complex conjugate pairs). Suppose that these numbers are such ...
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Cauchy identity, with sum restricted over partitions with first part $\leq n$
The Cauchy Identity
$$ \sum_{\nu}s_{\nu}(x)s_{\nu}(y) = \prod_{j,k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{1-x_{j}y_{k}} $$
expresses the sum over all integer partitions of the product of pairs of Schur polynomials as ...
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I search representation in terms of Schur Q-function
Consider next sum
$$
Z_0^{N, N_f} = \sum_{r=0}^{N N_f} \sum_{\lambda \vdash r }s_{\lambda}(1^{N_f})
s_{\lambda} (1^{N_f})
= \det_{1\le i, j \le N} \ \binom{2 N_f}{N_f-i +j} = s_{N^{N_f}} \left(...