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3. Symmetric Functions

verfasst von : Alexey L. Gorodentsev

Erschienen in: Algebra II

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The symmetric group S n acts on the polynomial ring \(\mathbb{Z}[x_{1},x_{2},\ldots,x_{n}]\) by permutations of variables:
$$\displaystyle{ g\,f(x_{1},x_{2},\mathop{\ldots },x_{n}) = f\left (x_{g^{-1}(1)},x_{g^{-1}(2)},\ldots,x_{g^{-1}(n)}\right )\quad \forall \,g \in S_{n}. }$$
(3.1)
A polynomial \(f \in \mathbb{Z}[x_{1},x_{2},\ldots,x_{n}]\) is called symmetric if gf = f for all g ∈ S n, and alternating if gf = sgn(g) ⋅ f for all g ∈ S n. The symmetric polynomials clearly form a subring of \(\mathbb{Z}[x_{1},x_{2},\ldots,x_{n}]\), whereas the alternating polynomials form a module over this subring, since the product of symmetric and alternating polynomials is alternating.

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Fußnoten
1
That is, consisting of at most n rows; see Example 1.​3 in Algebra I for the terminology related to Young diagrams.
 
2
Recall that the lexicographic order on \(\mathbb{Z}^{k}\) assigns (m 1, m 2, …, m k) > (n 1, n 2, …, n k) if the leftmost m i such that m in i is greater than n i.
 
3
The coefficient of every monomial changes sign under the transposition of any two variables.
 
4
Recall that we use the notation ( f(i, j)), where f(i, j) is some function of i, j, for the matrix having f(i, j) at the intersection of the ith row and jth column.
 
5
That is, obtained from one another by reflection in the main diagonal.
 
6
Over an arbitrary (even noncommutative) ring with unit.
 
7
That is, f(e 1,e 2,…,e n) ≠ 0 in \(\mathbb{Z}[x_{1},x_{2},\ldots,x_{n}]\) for every \(f \in \mathbb{Z}[t_{1},t_{2},\ldots,t_{n}]\).
 
8
See Sect. 12.2.3 of Algebra I.
 
9
That is, the cardinality of the stabilizer of the permutation of cyclic type λ under the adjoint action of the symmetric group; see Example 12.16 of Algebra I.
 
10
See Corollary 4.​3 on p. 94.
 
11
Recall that we write (λ) for the number of rows in a Young diagram λ and call it the length of λ.
 
12
The first form a ring, and the second form a module over this ring.
 
13
For n = 0, we put \(\mathbb{Z}[x_{1},x_{2},\ldots,x_{n}]\) equal to \(\mathbb{Z}\).
 
14
Recall that the n th cyclotomic polynomial \(\Phi _{n}(x) =\prod (x-\zeta )\) is the monic polynomial of degree φ(n) whose roots are the primitive nth roots of unity \(\zeta \in \mathbb{C}\). (See Sect. 3.5.4 of Algebra I.)
 
15
See Proposition 9.​4 from Algebra I.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Symmetric Functions
verfasst von
Alexey L. Gorodentsev
Copyright-Jahr
2017
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50853-5_3