LOGARITHMIC CONCAVITY OF SCHUR AND RELATED POLYNOMIALS

June Huh; Jacob P. Matherne; Karola Mészáros; Avery S.T. Dizier

doi:10.1090/tran/8606

LOGARITHMIC CONCAVITY OF SCHUR AND RELATED POLYNOMIALS

June Huh
, Jacob P. Matherne
, Karola Mészáros
, Avery S.T. Dizier

Mathematics

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Abstract

We show that normalized Schur polynomials are strongly log-concave. As a consequence, we obtain Okounkov's log-concavity conjecture for Littlewood-Richardson coefficients in the special case of Kostka numbers.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4411-4427
Number of pages	17
Journal	Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Volume	375
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8606
State	Published - Jun 1 2022

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General Mathematics
Applied Mathematics

Keywords

Lorentzian polynomials
Schur polynomials
log-concavity
weight multiplicities

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