arXiv · 1909.01418
A categorification of the Malvenuto--Reutenauer algebra via a tower of groups
Abstract
There is a long tradition of categorifying combinatorial Hopf algebras by the modules of a tower of algebras (or even better via the representation theory of a tower of groups). From the point of view of combinatorics, such a categorification supplies canonical bases, inner products, and a natural avenue to prove positivity results. Recent ideas in supercharacter theory have made fashioning the representation theory of a tower of groups into a Hopf structure more tractable. This paper applies such a program to the Malvenuto--Reutenauer Hopf algebra. In particular, we design functors on the representation theory of a tower of $p$-groups that realize the Hopf structure of the Malvenuto--Reutenauer algebra in such a way that its well-known fundamental basis corresponds to a supercharacter basis.
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Farid Aliniaeifard, Nathaniel Thiem. 2019-09-03. A categorification of the Malvenuto--Reutenauer algebra via a tower of groups. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01418
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