Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 86B.22 (2022), 12 pp.

Jesse Kim and Brendon Rhoades

Set Partitions, Fermions, and Skein Relations

Abstract. The second author defined an action of the symmetric group Sn<(sub> on the vector space spanned by noncrossing partitions of {1, ... , n} by introducing new skein relations which resolve local crossings in set partitions. On the other hand, the second author and Jongwon Kim defined and studied the {\em fermionic diagonal coinvariant ring} FDRn which has a definition analogous to the Garsia-Haiman diagonal coinvariant ring DRn, but with fermionic (anticommuting) variables. We prove that set partition skein relations arises naturally in the context of FDRn. This clarifies and sharpens results on the skein action and gives an Sn-equivariant way to resolve an arbitrary set partition into a linear combination of noncrossing partitions.


Received: November 25, 2021. Accepted: March 4, 2022. Final version: April 1, 2022.

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