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math.CO2026

Permanental Inequalities and Unit Interval Orders

Sihong Pan, Mark Skandera, Jiayuan Wang

Given a square matrix, the permanent is a determinant-like function without signs. In this paper, we study inequalities involving permanents of certain submatrices. We first focus…

math.CO2026

On Kazhdan--Lusztig basis elements having no reversal factorization

Tommy Parisi, Ben Spahiu, Mark Skandera +1

For in the symmetric group , let be the corresponding modified, signless Kazhdan--Lusztig basis element of the type- Hecke algebra . An extensi…

math.CO2025

Hook immanantal inequalities for totally nonnegative matrices

Mark Skandera

Given a weakly decreasing positive integer sequence summing to , let denote the irreducible character of the symmetric group indexed by…

math.CO2025

Hyperoctahedral group characters and a type-BC analog of graph coloring

Mark Skandera

We state combinatorial formulas for hyperoctahedral group () character evaluations of the form $χ( {{\widetilde C}_w}^{\negthickspace\negthickspace BC}\negthickspac…

math.CO2025

A generalization of Deodhar's defect statistic for Iwahori--Hecke algebras of type

Gavin Hobbs, Tommy Parisi, Mark Skandera +1

Let be the Iwahori--Hecke algebra corresponding to any Coxeter group. Deodhar's defect statistic [Geom. Dedicata 36, (1990) pp.95--119] allows one to expand products of simple…

math.CO2024

LLT Polynomials and Hecke Algebra Traces

Alejandro H. Morales, Mark A. Skandera, Jiayuan Wang

We show that coefficients in unicellular LLT polynomials are evaluations of Hecke algebra traces at Kazhdan-Lusztig basis elements. We express these in terms of traditional trace b…