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Main Authors: Grinberg, Darij, Roby, Tom, Wagner, Stephan, Yin, Mei
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20492
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author Grinberg, Darij
Roby, Tom
Wagner, Stephan
Yin, Mei
author_facet Grinberg, Darij
Roby, Tom
Wagner, Stephan
Yin, Mei
contents Motivated by a question and some enumerative conjectures of Richard Stanley, we explore the equivalence classes of words in the Weyl algebra, $\mathbf{k} \left< D,U \mid DU - UD = 1 \right>$. We show that each class is generated by the swapping of adjacent *balanced subwords*, i.e., those which have the same number of $D$'s as $U$'s, and give several other characterizations, as well as a linear-time algorithm for equivalence checking. Armed with this, we deduce several enumerative results about such equivalence classes and their sizes. We extend these results to the class of $c$-Dyck words, where every prefix has at least $c$ times as many $U$'s as $D$'s. We also connect these results to previous work on bond percolation and rook theory, and generalize them to some other algebras.
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spellingShingle Monomial identities in the Weyl algebra
Grinberg, Darij
Roby, Tom
Wagner, Stephan
Yin, Mei
Combinatorics
Rings and Algebras
12H05, 16S32, 05A15, 68R15
Motivated by a question and some enumerative conjectures of Richard Stanley, we explore the equivalence classes of words in the Weyl algebra, $\mathbf{k} \left< D,U \mid DU - UD = 1 \right>$. We show that each class is generated by the swapping of adjacent *balanced subwords*, i.e., those which have the same number of $D$'s as $U$'s, and give several other characterizations, as well as a linear-time algorithm for equivalence checking. Armed with this, we deduce several enumerative results about such equivalence classes and their sizes. We extend these results to the class of $c$-Dyck words, where every prefix has at least $c$ times as many $U$'s as $D$'s. We also connect these results to previous work on bond percolation and rook theory, and generalize them to some other algebras.
title Monomial identities in the Weyl algebra
topic Combinatorics
Rings and Algebras
12H05, 16S32, 05A15, 68R15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20492