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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

On the Connection Between Macdonald Polynomials and Demazure Characters

Yasmine B. Sanderson
Rutgers University Department of Mathematics New Brunswick N.J. 08901

DOI: 10.1023/A:1008786420650

Abstract

We show that the specialization of nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials at t = 0 are, up to multiplication by a simple factor, characters of Demazure modules for [^( sl( n))] \widehat{sl(n)} . This connection furnishes Lie-theoretic proofs of the nonnegativity and monotonicity of Kostka polynomials.

Pages: 269–275

Keywords: affine Lie algebras; Macdonald polynomials; Demazure character

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