Crystals for shifted key polynomials

Abstract

This article continues our study of $P$- and $Q$-key polynomials, which are (non-symmetric) "partial" Schur $P$- and $Q$-functions as well as "shifted" versions of key polynomials. Our main results provide a crystal interpretation of $P$- and $Q$-key polynomials, namely, as the characters of certain connected subcrystals of normal crystals associated to the queer Lie superalgebra ${\mathfrak{q}}_n$. In the $P$-key case, the ambient normal crystals are the ${\mathfrak{q}}_n$-crystals studied by Grantcharov et al., while in the $Q$-key case, these are replaced by the extended ${\mathfrak{q}}_n$-crystals recently introduced by the first author and Tong. Using these constructions, we propose a crystal-theoretic lift of several conjectures about the decomposition of involution Schubert polynomials into $P$- and $Q$-key polynomials. We verify these generalized conjectures in a few special cases. Along the way, we establish some miscellaneous results about normal ${\mathfrak{q}}_n$-crystals and Demazure ${\mathfrak{gl}}_n$-crystals.

60 pages, 6 figures; v2 minor updates; v3: minor corrections and updated references

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