Bounded Littlewood Identities

Bounded Littlewood Identities
Author: Eric M. Rains
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2021-07-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1470446901

We describe a method, based on the theory of Macdonald–Koornwinder polynomials, for proving bounded Littlewood identities. Our approach provides an alternative to Macdonald’s partial fraction technique and results in the first examples of bounded Littlewood identities for Macdonald polynomials. These identities, which take the form of decomposition formulas for Macdonald polynomials of type (R, S) in terms of ordinary Macdonald polynomials, are q, t-analogues of known branching formulas for characters of the symplectic, orthogonal and special orthogonal groups. In the classical limit, our method implies that MacMahon’s famous ex-conjecture for the generating function of symmetric plane partitions in a box follows from the identification of GL(n, R), O(n) as a Gelfand pair. As further applications, we obtain combinatorial formulas for characters of affine Lie algebras; Rogers–Ramanujan identities for affine Lie algebras, complementing recent results of Griffin et al.; and quadratic transformation formulas for Kaneko–Macdonald-type basic hypergeometric series.

Cubic Action of a Rank One Group

Cubic Action of a Rank One Group
Author: Matthias Grüninger
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2022-04-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470451344

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