Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego
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Math 269 - Combinatorics
K. Williams
MIT Graduate Student
Enumeration of totally positive Grassmann cells
Abstract:
Alex Postnikov recently gave a combinatorially explicit cell decomposition of the totally nonnegative part of a Grassmannian, denoted $Gr_{kn}+$, and showed that this set of cells is isomorphic as a graded poset to many other interesting graded posets. The main result of our work is an explicit generating function which enumerates the cells in $Gr_{kn}+$ according to their dimension. As a corollary, we give a new proof that the Euler characteristic of $Gr_{kn}+$ is 1. Additionally, we use our result to produce a new q-analog of the Eulerian numbers, which interpolates between the Eulerian numbers, the Narayana numbers, and the binomial coefficients.
Host: Jeff Remmel
April 27, 2004
4:00 PM
AP&M 7321
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