4 papers
math.CO2026
Schur positivity of nabla on Petrie symmetric functions
Menghao Qu
The Petrie symmetric function , introduced by Grinberg, is defined as the sum of monomial symmetric functions indexed by partitions satisfying .…
math.CO2026
Schur positivity of the nabla operator on two-column modified Hall--Littlewood polynomials
Menghao Qu
In this paper, we investigate the Schur positivity of modified Hall--Littlewood polynomials indexed by two-column partitions under the action of the operator. Specifically…
math.CO2026
Symmetry of the refined -Catalan polynomials for -Dyck paths
Menghao Qu, Yingrui Zhang
Pappe, Paul, and Schilling introduced two combinatorial statistics, depth and ddinv, associated with classical Dyck paths, and proved that the distributions of (area, depth) and (d…
math.CO2025
A parking function interpretation for
Menghao Qu, Guoce Xin
Haglund, Morse, and Zabrocki introduced a family of creation operators of Hall-Littlewood polynomials, for any , in their compositional refinement of t…