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Title: Dens, nests and the Loehr-Warrington conjecture
We prove and extend the longest-standing conjecture in ‘ q , t q,t -Catalan combinatorics,’ namely, the combinatorial formula for ∇<#comment/> m s μ<#comment/> \nabla ^m s_{\mu } conjectured by Loehr and Warrington, where s μ<#comment/> s_{\mu } is a Schur function and ∇<#comment/> \nabla is an eigenoperator on Macdonald polynomials. Our approach is to establish a stronger identity of infinite series of G L l GL_l characters involvingSchur Catalanimals; these were recently shown by the authors to represent Schur functions s μ<#comment/> [ −<#comment/> M X m , n ] s_{\mu }[-MX^{m,n}] in subalgebras Λ<#comment/> ( X m , n ) ⊂<#comment/> E \Lambda (X^{m,n})\subset \mathcal {E} isomorphic to the algebra of symmetric functions Λ<#comment/> \Lambda over Q ( q , t ) \mathbb {Q} (q,t) , where E \mathcal {E} is the elliptic Hall algebra of Burban and Schiffmann. We establish a combinatorial formula for Schur Catalanimals as weighted sums of LLT polynomials, with terms indexed by configurations of nested lattice paths callednests, having endpoints and bounding constraints controlled by data called aden. The special case for Λ<#comment/> ( X m , 1 ) \Lambda (X^{m,1}) proves the Loehr-Warrington conjecture, giving ∇<#comment/> m s μ<#comment/> \nabla ^m s_{\mu } as a weighted sum of LLT polynomials indexed by systems of nested Dyck paths. In general, for Λ<#comment/> ( X m , n ) \Lambda (X^{m,n}) our formula implies a new ( m , n ) (m,n) version of the Loehr-Warrington conjecture. In the case where each nest consists of a single lattice path, the nests in a den formula reduce to our previous shuffle theorem for paths under any line. Both this and the ( m , n ) (m,n) Loehr-Warrington formula generalize the ( k m , k n ) (km,kn) shuffle theorem proven by Carlsson and Mellit (for n = 1 n=1 ) and Mellit. Our formula here unifies these two generalizations.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2452208
PAR ID:
10630988
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
American Math Society
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN:
0894-0347
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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