Valentin Féray
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Combinatorial interpretation and positivity of Kerov's character polynomials
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2008,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AJ, 20th Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2008)
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3629
Combinatorial interpretation and positivity of Kerov's character polynomialsArticle
Kerov's polynomials give irreducible character values of the symmetric group in term of the free cumulants of the associated Young diagram. Using a combinatorial approach with maps, we prove in this article a positivity result on their coefficients, which extends a conjecture of S. Kerov.
Maciej Dołęga;Valentin Féray;Piotr Śniady, 2010, Explicit combinatorial interpretation of Kerov character polynomials as numbers of permutation factorizations, Advances in Mathematics, 225, 1, pp. 81-120, 10.1016/j.aim.2010.02.011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2010.02.011.