Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 91B.7 (2024), 12 pp.

Christian Gaetz and Yibo Gao

Pattern Heights and The Minimal Power of q in a Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomial

Abstract. For w in the symmetric group, we use permutation patterns to provide an exact formula for the smallest positive power qh(w) appearing in the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial Pe,w(q). We also use Weyl group patterns to provide a tight upper bound on h(w) in simply-laced types, resolving a conjecture of Billey-Postnikov from 2002.


Received: November 15, 2023. Accepted: February 15, 2024. Final version: April 1, 2024.

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