Bottom Schur functions

Peter Clifford ; Richard P. Stanley

The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 11 (2004) no. 1

Résumé

We give a basis for the space spanned by the sum $\hat{s}_\lambda$ of the lowest degree terms in the expansion of the Schur symmetric functions $s_\lambda$ in terms of the power sum symmetric functions $p_\mu$, where deg$(p_i)=1$. These lowest degree terms correspond to minimal border strip tableaux of $\lambda$. The dimension of the space spanned by $\hat{s}_\lambda$, where $\lambda$ is a partition of $n$, is equal to the number of partitions of $n$ into parts differing by at least 2. Applying the Rogers-Ramanujan identity, the generating function also counts the number of partitions of $n$ into parts $5k+1$ and $5k-1$. We also show that a symmetric function closely related to $\hat{s}_\lambda$ has the same coefficients when expanded in terms of power sums or augmented monomial symmetric functions.

Détail

DOI : 10.37236/1820

Classification : 05E05, 05E10
Mots-clés : symmetric functions, border strip tableaux, Rogers-Ramanujan identity