Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B81k (2020), 50 pp.

Soichi Okada

A Generalization of Schur's P- and Q-Functions

Abstract. We introduce and study a generalization of Schur's P-/Q-functions associated with a polynomial sequence, which can be viewed as ``Macdonald's ninth variation'' for P-/Q-functions. This variation includes as special cases Schur's P-/Q-functions, Ivanov's factorial P-/Q-functions and the t=-1 specialization of Hall-Littlewood functions associated with the classical root systems. We establish several identities and properties such as generalizations of Schur's original definition of Schur's Q-functions, a Cauchy-type identity, a generalization of the Józefiak-Pragacz-Nimmo formula for skew Q-functions, and a Pieri-type rule for multiplication.


Received: April 6 2019. Accepted: May 18, 2020.

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