Symmetric functions and Hall polynomials
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Symmetric functions and Hall polynomials
(Oxford mathematical monographs)
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1995
2nd ed
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"Oxford science publications" -- Cover
Bibliography: p. [457]-465
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780198504504
Description
This is a paperback version of the second, much expanded, edition of Professor Macdonald's acclaimed monograph on symmetric functions and Hall polynomials. Almost every chapter has new sections and new examples have been included throughout. Extra material in the appendix to Chapter 1, for example, includes an account of the related theory of polynomial representations of the general linear groups (always in characteristic zero). Chapters 6 and 7 are new to the
second edition: Chapter 6 contains an extended account of a family of symmetric functions depending rationally on two parameters. These symmetric functions include as particular cases many of those encountered earlier in the book but they also include, as a limiting case, Jack's symmetric functions
depending on a parameter (Many of the properties of the Schur functions generalize to these two-parameter symmetric functions, but the proofs (at present) are usually more elaborate. Chapter 7 is devoted to the study of the zonal polynomials, long familiar to statisticians. From one point of view they are a special case of Jack's symmetric functions (the parameter ( being equal to 2) but their combinatorial and group-theoretic connections make them worthy of study in their own right.
From reviews of the first edition: 'Despite the amount of material of such great potential interest to mathematicians...the theory of symmetric functions remains all but unknown to the persons it is most likely to benefit...Hopefully this beautifully written book will put an end to this state of affairs...I have no doubt that this book will become the definitive reference on symmetric functions and their applications.'
Bulletin of the AMS
'...In addition to providing a self-contained and coherent account of well-known and classical work, there is a great deal which is original. The book is dotted with gems, both old and new...It is a substantial and valuable volume and will be regarded as the authoritative source which has been long awaited in this subject.' LMS book reviews
From reviews of the second edition: 'Evidently this second edition will be the source and reference book for symmetric functions in the near future.' bl. Math.
Table of Contents
- I. Symmetric functions
- II. Hall polynomials
- III. HallLittlewood symmetric functions
- IV. The characters of GLn over a finite field
- V. The Hecke ring of GLn over a finite field
- VI. Symmetric functions with two parameters
- VII. Zonal polynomials
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ISBN 9780198534891
Description
This new and much expanded edition of a well-received book remains the only text available on the subject of symmetric functions and Hall polynomials. There are new sections in almost every chapter, and many new examples have been included throughout.
Table of Contents
- Symmetric Functions
- Hall Polynomials
- Hall-Littlewood symmetric functions
- The Characters of GLn over a finite field
- The Hecke ring of GLn over a local field
- Symmetric functions with two parameters
- Zonal polynomials
- Notation.
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