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Dual combinatorics of zonal polynomials

Valentin Féray (1), Piotr Sniady (2) (3)
(1) Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
(2) Instytut Matematyczny PAN
(3) Instytut Matematyczny
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DMTCS Proceedings vol. AO, 23rd International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2011)
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10.46298/dmtcs.2913
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Dual combinatorics of zonal polynomials

Valentin Féray (1), Piotr Sniady (2) (3)
(1) Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
(2) Instytut Matematyczny PAN
(3) Instytut Matematyczny
Abstract
English
In this paper we establish a new combinatorial formula for zonal polynomials in terms of power-sums. The proof relies on the sign-reversing involution principle. We deduce from it formulas for zonal characters, which are defined as suitably normalized coefficients in the expansion of zonal polynomials in terms of power-sum symmetric functions. These formulas are analogs of recent developments on irreducible character values of symmetric groups. The existence of such formulas could have been predicted from the work of M. Lassalle who formulated two positivity conjectures for Jack characters, which we prove in the special case of zonal polynomials.
French
Dans cet article, nous établissons une nouvelle formule combinatoire pour les polynômes zonaux en fonction des fonctions puissance. La preuve utilise le principe de l'involution changeant les signes. Nous en déduisons des formules pour les caractères zonaux, qui sont définis comme les coefficients des polynômes zonaux écrits sur la base des fonctions puissance, normalisés de manière appropriée. Ces formules sont des analogues de développements récents sur les caractères du groupe symétrique. L'existence de telles formules aurait pu être prédite à partir des travaux de M. Lassalle, qui a proposé deux conjectures de positivité sur les caractères de Jack, que nous prouvons dans le cas particulier des polynômes zonaux.
Keywords
  • [MATH.MATH-CO]Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO]
  • [INFO.INFO-DM]Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]
  • zonal polynomials
  • zonal characters
  • Jack polynomials
  • Kerov polynomials
  • Stanley polynomials
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