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Zonal polynomials may be expressed in terms of power sums as $$Z_\lambda=n!\sum_\nu \frac{1}{z_\nu }2^{n-\ell(\nu)}\omega_\lambda(\nu)p_\nu,$$ with usual notation in which $\omega_\lambda(\nu)$ are the zonal spherical functions. Skew zonal polynomials are defined in terms of the usual scalar product of symmetric functions by $ \langle Z_\mu Z_\nu,Z_\lambda\rangle=\langle Z_\nu,Z_{\lambda\backslash\mu}\rangle$, and we could define skew zonal spherical functions by the relation $$Z_{\lambda\backslash\mu}=n!\sum_\nu \frac{1}{z_\nu }2^{n-\ell(\nu)}\omega_{\lambda\backslash\mu}(\nu)p_\nu.$$

My question is whether there is a combinatorial recipe for computing $\omega_{\lambda\backslash\mu}(\nu)$ [such a recipe does exist for skew characters of the symmetric group]. I haven't found this in MacDonald's book or Stanley's paper on Jack polynomials, for instance.

EDIT: The sources I mentioned do not discuss a combinatorial interpretation of non-skew functions $\omega_\lambda(\mu)$. This is briefly discussed in Harmonic Analysis on Finite Groups (by Silberstein, Scarabotti and Tolli), but without mention of the skew case.

Zonal polynomials may be expressed in terms of power sums as $$Z_\lambda=n!\sum_\nu \frac{1}{z_\nu }2^{n-\ell(\nu)}\omega_\lambda(\nu)p_\nu,$$ with usual notation in which $\omega_\lambda(\nu)$ are the zonal spherical functions. Skew zonal polynomials are defined in terms of the usual scalar product of symmetric functions by $ \langle Z_\mu Z_\nu,Z_\lambda\rangle=\langle Z_\nu,Z_{\lambda\backslash\mu}\rangle$, and we could define skew zonal spherical functions by the relation $$Z_{\lambda\backslash\mu}=n!\sum_\nu \frac{1}{z_\nu }2^{n-\ell(\nu)}\omega_{\lambda\backslash\mu}(\nu)p_\nu.$$

My question is whether there is a combinatorial recipe for computing $\omega_{\lambda\backslash\mu}(\nu)$ [such a recipe does exist for skew characters of the symmetric group]. I haven't found this in MacDonald's book or Stanley's paper on Jack polynomials, for instance.

Zonal polynomials may be expressed in terms of power sums as $$Z_\lambda=n!\sum_\nu \frac{1}{z_\nu }2^{n-\ell(\nu)}\omega_\lambda(\nu)p_\nu,$$ with usual notation in which $\omega_\lambda(\nu)$ are the zonal spherical functions. Skew zonal polynomials are defined in terms of the usual scalar product of symmetric functions by $ \langle Z_\mu Z_\nu,Z_\lambda\rangle=\langle Z_\nu,Z_{\lambda\backslash\mu}\rangle$, and we could define skew zonal spherical functions by the relation $$Z_{\lambda\backslash\mu}=n!\sum_\nu \frac{1}{z_\nu }2^{n-\ell(\nu)}\omega_{\lambda\backslash\mu}(\nu)p_\nu.$$

My question is whether there is a combinatorial recipe for computing $\omega_{\lambda\backslash\mu}(\nu)$ [such a recipe does exist for skew characters of the symmetric group]. I haven't found this in MacDonald's book or Stanley's paper on Jack polynomials, for instance.

EDIT: The sources I mentioned do not discuss a combinatorial interpretation of non-skew functions $\omega_\lambda(\mu)$. This is briefly discussed in Harmonic Analysis on Finite Groups (by Silberstein, Scarabotti and Tolli), but without mention of the skew case.

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Skew zonal polynomials, skew zonal spherical functions, and combinatorics

Zonal polynomials may be expressed in terms of power sums as $$Z_\lambda=n!\sum_\nu \frac{1}{z_\nu }2^{n-\ell(\nu)}\omega_\lambda(\nu)p_\nu,$$ with usual notation in which $\omega_\lambda(\nu)$ are the zonal spherical functions. Skew zonal polynomials are defined in terms of the usual scalar product of symmetric functions by $ \langle Z_\mu Z_\nu,Z_\lambda\rangle=\langle Z_\nu,Z_{\lambda\backslash\mu}\rangle$, and we could define skew zonal spherical functions by the relation $$Z_{\lambda\backslash\mu}=n!\sum_\nu \frac{1}{z_\nu }2^{n-\ell(\nu)}\omega_{\lambda\backslash\mu}(\nu)p_\nu.$$

My question is whether there is a combinatorial recipe for computing $\omega_{\lambda\backslash\mu}(\nu)$ [such a recipe does exist for skew characters of the symmetric group]. I haven't found this in MacDonald's book or Stanley's paper on Jack polynomials, for instance.