Questions tagged [symmetric-polynomials]
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The sum of squared logarithms conjecture
I am searching for the first proof of (or counterexample to) the following conjecture.
(The sum of squared logarithms conjecture)
For all natural numbers $n$ and positive numbers $x_1,x_2, \ldots , ...
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A generalization of the difference of squares identity
Let us find explicit integer functions for the coefficients of the monomial expansion of
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Q \left( x_1, \ldots , x_n \right) = \prod_{\left( \kappa_1, \ldots , \kappa_{n-1} \right) \in \{-1,1\}^{n-1}...
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Derivatives of Riemann $\xi$ and traces of zeros
Looking for references essentially corroborating (to authoritatively satisfy some editors) the sketch below of the relationship between even power (2,4,...) sums (traces) of the imaginary part of the ...
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Diagonal invariants of the symmetric group on $k[X_1,X_2,...,X_n,Y_1,Y_2,...,Y_n]$
This sounds like something that must have been answered long ago, but for some reason I can find nothing on it in the internet. (There has been lots of recent activity in diagonal covariants, related ...
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Generalizing the Fundamental Theorem of Symmetric Polynomials
The fundamental theorem of symmetric polynomials tells us that the ring $\mathbb{Z}[x_1,\ldots,x_n]^{S_n}$ of symmetric polynomials in $n$ variables is generated (without relations) by the elementary ...
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Generalization of symmetric functions
A $n$-variable function $f$ is a symmetric function if
$$f(x_1,x_2, \ldots, x_n) = f(x_{\sigma(1)}, x_{\sigma(2)}, \ldots, x_{\sigma(n)})$$
for every permutation $\sigma \in S_n$.
In particular, if $f$...
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Polynomial defined recursively by a resultant
Cross posting from MSE.
Definition:
For any natural number $n\ge 3$, define the polynomial $P_{n}\left(x_1,x_2,...,x_{n-1},x_{n} \right)$, with indeterminates $x_{i}$, where $i\in\{1,2,...,n-1,n\}$, ...
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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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Polynomial function defined recursively by a resultant - is it well defined?
Preliminaries
Let $ n $ be an integer such that $ n \geq3 $. Denote $ \left[ n \right] \equiv \{1,2, \ldots ,n \} $. Let $ P $ be a non-empty subset of $ \left[ n \right] $ such that $ \left|P \right| ...
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On a positivity property of Hall-Littlewood polynomials
Here's the new, more thought through version.
Consider a sequence of nonnegative integers $\lambda=(\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_n)$ with $\lambda_i\ge \lambda_{i+1}+2$ (the weight $\lambda-2\rho$ is ...