Combinatorial interpretation and positivity of Kerov's character polynomials

Kerov's polynomials give irreducible character values of the symmetric group in term of the free cumulants of the associated Young diagram. Using a combinatorial approach with maps, we prove in this article a positivity result on their coefficients, which extends a conjecture of S. Kerov.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valentin Féray
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2008-01-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
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Online Access:https://dmtcs.episciences.org/3629/pdf