Cyclic sieving and orbit harmonics

Abstract

Orbit harmonics is a tool in combinatorial representation theory which promotes the (ungraded) action of a linear group $G$ on a finite set $X$ to a graded action of $G$ on a polynomial ring quotient by viewing $X$ as a $G$-stable point locus in ${\mathbb{C}}^n$. The cyclic sieving phenomenon is a notion in enumerative combinatorics which encapsulates the fixed-point structure of the action of a finite cyclic group $C$ on a finite set $X$ in terms of root-of-unity evaluations of an auxiliary polynomial $X(q)$. We apply orbit harmonics to prove cyclic sieving results.

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