Mixed Products of Modified Greaves--Jing--Zhu Operators

Abstract

Let $\mathcal Y(z;t)$ be the modified Greaves--Jing--Zhu operator on the odd power-sum ring. We first point out that this operator can be obtained from the classical neutral operator by a simple diagonal change of variables. We then study products in which the two deformation parameters are not necessarily the same. For two parameters $t$ and $s$, we compute the scalar factor that appears in the mixed product. This factor has an explicit exponential form and, in a completed setting, can also be written as a quotient of infinite $t$-Pochhammer products. We also give a recurrence for its coefficients, a product formula for several mixed operators, and formulas for the coefficients obtained after applying the operators to $\mathbf 1$. A particularly simple case occurs when $s=t^M$. In this case the scalar factor becomes the finite quotient $(u;t)_M/(-u;t)_M$. Its coefficients are signed principal specializations of one-row Schur $Q$-functions. As a result, after removing the signs, these coefficients are nonnegative palindromic polynomials. We also give a Gaussian-binomial formula and a finite-order recurrence.