# The symmetric functions catalog

An overview of symmetric functions and related topics

2020-06-29

## Permuted basement Macdonald E polynomials

The permuted-basement Macdonald polynomials generalize the non-symmetric Macdonald polynomials, by introducing an additional parameter $\sigma \in \symS_n,$ the basement. They were introduced in [Fer11] by J. Ferreira, as eigenpolynomials of certain operators. Later in [Ale19a], a combinatorial model was introduced.

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Proposition (See [CMW18]).

Let $\mu$ be a partition, of length at most $n.$ Then

$\macdonaldP_\mu(\xvec;q,t) = \sum_{\sigma \in \symS_n} \macdonaldE^{\sigma}_\mu(\xvec;q,t).$
Conjecture (Olya Mandelshtam, 2019 (personal communication)).

Some computations suggest that for any composition $\mu,$ we have

$R_\mu(q,t) \macdonaldP_\mu(\xvec;q,t) = \sum_{\sigma \in \symS_n} \macdonaldE^{\sigma}_\mu(\xvec;q,t)$

where $R_\mu(q,t)$ is in $\setQ(q,t).$

## Quasisymmetric Macdonald E polynomials

A quasisymmetric version of the non-symmetric Macdonald polynomials were introduced in [CHMMW19b].

They specialize to the quasisymmetric Schur polynomials at $q=t=0.$

Let $\alpha$ be a composition. Then the coefficients $K_{\alpha\gamma}(q)$ in the expansion
$\macdonaldEQuasi_\alpha(\xvec;q,0) = \sum_{\gamma} K_{\alpha\gamma}(q) \schurQS_\gamma(\xvec)$
are in $\setN[q].$ Note that this resemblence the fact that $\macdonaldE_\alpha(\xvec;q,0)$ are key-positive, with versions of Kostka–Foulkes polynomials as coefficients.