Symmetric Functions

Author : Eric S. Egge
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470448998
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Symmetric Functions and Their Combinatorics written by Eric S. Egge and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reader-friendly introduction to the theory of symmetric functions, and it includes fundamental topics such as the monomial, elementary, homogeneous, and Schur function bases; the skew Schur functions; the Jacobi–Trudi identities; the involution ω ω; the Hall inner product; Cauchy's formula; the RSK correspondence and how to implement it with both insertion and growth diagrams; the Pieri rules; the Murnaghan–Nakayama rule; Knuth equivalence; jeu de taquin; and the Littlewood–Richardson rule. The book also includes glimpses of recent developments and active areas of research, including Grothendieck polynomials, dual stable Grothendieck polynomials, Stanley's chromatic symmetric function, and Stanley's chromatic tree conjecture. Written in a conversational style, the book contains many motivating and illustrative examples. Whenever possible it takes a combinatorial approach, using bijections, involutions, and combinatorial ideas to prove algebraic results. The prerequisites for this book are minimal—familiarity with linear algebra, partitions, and generating functions is all one needs to get started. This makes the book accessible to a wide array of undergraduates interested in combinatorics.

Author : Alain Lascoux
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821828711
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetric Functions and Combinatorial Operators on Polynomials written by Alain Lascoux and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of symmetric functions is an old topic in mathematics, which is used as an algebraic tool in many classical fields. With $\lambda$-rings, one can regard symmetric functions as operators on polynomials and reduce the theory to just a handful of fundamental formulas. One of the main goals of the book is to describe the technique of $\lambda$-rings. The main applications of this technique to the theory of symmetric functions are related to the Euclid algorithm and its occurrence in division, continued fractions, Pade approximants, and orthogonal polynomials. Putting the emphasis on the symmetric group instead of symmetric functions, one can extend the theory to non-symmetric polynomials, with Schur functions being replaced by Schubert polynomials. In two independent chapters, the author describes the main properties of these polynomials, following either the approach of Newton and interpolation methods, or the method of Cauchy and the diagonalization of a kernel generalizing the resultant. The last chapter sketches a non-commutative version of symmetric functions, with the help of Young tableaux and the plactic monoid. The book also contains numerous exercises clarifying and extending many points of the main text.

Author : Bruce E. Sagan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475768044
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Symmetric Group written by Bruce E. Sagan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together many of the important results in this field. From the reviews: ""A classic gets even better....The edition has new material including the Novelli-Pak-Stoyanovskii bijective proof of the hook formula, Stanley’s proof of the sum of squares formula using differential posets, Fomin’s bijective proof of the sum of squares formula, group acting on posets and their use in proving unimodality, and chromatic symmetric functions." --ZENTRALBLATT MATH

Author : Laurent Manivel
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780821821541
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetric Functions, Schubert Polynomials and Degeneracy Loci written by Laurent Manivel and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text grew out of an advanced course taught by the author at the Fourier Institute (Grenoble, France). It serves as an introduction to the combinatorics of symmetric functions, more precisely to Schur and Schubert polynomials. Also studied is the geometry of Grassmannians, flag varieties, and especially, their Schubert varieties. This book examines profound connections that unite these two subjects. The book is divided into three chapters. The first is devoted to symmetricfunctions and especially to Schur polynomials. These are polynomials with positive integer coefficients in which each of the monomials correspond to a Young tableau with the property of being ``semistandard''. The second chapter is devoted to Schubert polynomials, which were discovered by A. Lascoux andM.-P. Schutzenberger who deeply probed their combinatorial properties. It is shown, for example, that these polynomials support the subtle connections between problems of enumeration of reduced decompositions of permutations and the Littlewood-Richardson rule, a particularly efficacious version of which may be derived from these connections. The final chapter is geometric. It is devoted to Schubert varieties, subvarieties of Grassmannians, and flag varieties defined by certain incidenceconditions with fixed subspaces. This volume makes accessible a number of results, creating a solid stepping stone for scaling more ambitious heights in the area. The author's intent was to remain elementary: The first two chapters require no prior knowledge, the third chapter uses some rudimentary notionsof topology and algebraic geometry. For this reason, a comprehensive appendix on the topology of algebraic varieties is provided. This book is the English translation of a text previously published in French.

Author : Ian Grant Macdonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198504504
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetric Functions and Hall Polynomials written by Ian Grant Macdonald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissued classic text is the acclaimed second edition of Professor Ian Macdonald's groundbreaking monograph on symmetric functions and Hall polynomials. The first edition was published in 1979, before being significantly expanded into the present edition in 1995. This text is widely regarded as the best source of information on Hall polynomials and what have come to be known as Macdonald polynomials, central to a number of key developments in mathematics and mathematical physics in the 21st century Macdonald polynomials gave rise to the subject of double affine Hecke algebras (or Cherednik algebras) important in representation theory. String theorists use Macdonald polynomials to attack the so-called AGT conjectures. Macdonald polynomials have been recently used to construct knot invariants. They are also a central tool for a theory of integrable stochastic models that have found a number of applications in probability, such as random matrices, directed polymers in random media, driven lattice gases, and so on. Macdonald polynomials have become a part of basic material that a researcher simply must know if (s)he wants to work in one of the above domains, ensuring this new edition will appeal to a very broad mathematical audience. Featuring a new foreword by Professor Richard Stanley of MIT.

Author : Gerrit Heckman
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080533299
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmonic Analysis and Special Functions on Symmetric Spaces written by Gerrit Heckman and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1995-02-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two parts of this sharply focused book, Hypergeometric and Special Functions and Harmonic Analysis on Semisimple Symmetric Spaces, are derived from lecture notes for the European School of Group Theory, a forum providing high-level courses on recent developments in group theory. The authors provide students and researchers with a thorough and thoughtful overview, elaborating on the topic with clear statements of definitions and theorems and augmenting these withtime-saving examples. An extensive set of notes supplements the text. Heckman and Schlichtkrull extend the ideas of harmonic analysis on semisimple symmetric spaces to embrace the theory of hypergeometric and spherical functions and show that the K-variant Eisenstein integrals for G/H are hypergeometric functions under this theory. They lead readers from the fundamentals of semisimple symmetric spaces of G/H to the frontier, including generalization, to the Riemannian case. This volume will interest harmonic analysts, those working on or applying the theory of symmetric spaces; it will also appeal to those with an interest in special functions. Extends ideas of harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces First treatment of the theory to include hypergeometric and spherical functions Links algebraic, analytic, and geometric methods

Author : Ian Grant Macdonald
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821807706
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetric Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials written by Ian Grant Macdonald and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most classical areas of algebra, the theory of symmetric functions and orthogonal polynomials, has long been known to be connected to combinatorics, representation theory and other branches of mathematics. Written by perhaps the most famous author on the topic, this volume explains some of the current developments regarding these connections. It is based on lectures presented by the author at Rutgers University. Specifically, he gives recent results on orthogonal polynomials associated with affine Hecke algebras, surveying the proofs of certain famous combinatorial conjectures.

Author : Taekyun Kim
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3036503609
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Trends in Symmetric Polynomials with Their Applications Ⅱ written by Taekyun Kim and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special issue contains research papers with various topics in many different branches of mathematics, applied mathematics, and mathematical physics. Each paper presents mathematical theory, methods, and their application based on current and recent developing symmetric polynomials. Also, each one aims to provide the full understanding of current research problems, theories, and applications on the chosen topics and contains the most recent advances made in the area of symmetric functions and polynomials.

Author : Alain Lascoux
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780821889435
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetric Functions and Combinatorial Operators on Polynomials written by Alain Lascoux and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of symmetric functions is an old topic in mathematics which is used as an algebraic tool in many classical fields. With $\lambda$-rings, one can regard symmetric functions as operators on polynomials and reduce the theory to just a handful of fundamental formulas. One of the main goals of the book is to describe the technique of $\lambda$-rings. The main applications of this technique to the theory of symmetric functions are related to the Euclid algorithm and itsoccurrence in division, continued fractions, Pade approximants, and orthogonal polynomials. Putting the emphasis on the symmetric group instead of symmetric functions, one can extend the theory to non-symmetric polynomials, with Schur functions being replaced by Schubert polynomials. In two independentchapters, the author describes the main properties of these polynomials, following either the approach of Newton and interpolation methods or the method of Cauchy. The last chapter sketches a non-commutative version of symmetric functions, using Young tableaux and the plactic monoid. The book contains numerous exercises clarifying and extending many points of the main text. It will make an excellent supplementary text for a graduate course in combinatorics.

Author : Floyd Fiske Decker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Symmetric Function Tables of the Fifteenthic written by Floyd Fiske Decker and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: