A unipotent realization of the chromatic quasisymmetric function

Abstract

This paper realizes of two families of combinatorial symmetric functions via the complex character theory of the finite general linear group ${\mathrm{GL}}_n({\mathbb{F}}_q)$: chromatic quasisymmetric functions and vertical strip LLT polynomials. The associated ${\mathrm{GL}}_n({\mathbb{F}}_q)$ characters are elementary in nature and can be obtained by induction from certain well-behaved characters of the unipotent upper triangular groups ${\mathrm{UT}}_n({\mathbb{F}}_q)$. The proof of these results also gives a general Hopf algebraic approach to computing the induction map. Additional results include a connection between the relevant ${\mathrm{GL}}_n({\mathbb{F}}_q)$ characters and Hessenberg varieties and a re-interpretation of known theorems and conjectures about the relevant symmetric functions in terms of ${\mathrm{GL}}_n({\mathbb{F}}_q)$.

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• A Supercharacter Analogue for Normality
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