Equivariant inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids

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Main Authors: Gao, Alice L. L., Li, Yun, Xie, Matthew H. Y.
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author Gao, Alice L. L.
Li, Yun
Xie, Matthew H. Y.
author_facet Gao, Alice L. L.
Li, Yun
Xie, Matthew H. Y.
contents In this paper, we focus on the equivariant inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids, a natural family of graphic matroids associated with the complete tripartite graphs $K_{1,1,n}$. These polynomials were introduced by Proudfoot as an extension of the Kazhdan--Lusztig theory for matroids. We derive closed-form expressions for the $\mathfrak{S}_n$-equivariant inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids and present them explicitly in terms of the irreducible representations of $\mathfrak{S}_n$. As an application, we also provide explicit formulas for the non-equivariant inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials, originally defined by Gao and Xie, and give an alternative proof using generating functions. Furthermore, we prove that the inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids are log-concave.
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spellingShingle Equivariant inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids
Gao, Alice L. L.
Li, Yun
Xie, Matthew H. Y.
Combinatorics
05B35, 05E05, 20C30
In this paper, we focus on the equivariant inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids, a natural family of graphic matroids associated with the complete tripartite graphs $K_{1,1,n}$. These polynomials were introduced by Proudfoot as an extension of the Kazhdan--Lusztig theory for matroids. We derive closed-form expressions for the $\mathfrak{S}_n$-equivariant inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids and present them explicitly in terms of the irreducible representations of $\mathfrak{S}_n$. As an application, we also provide explicit formulas for the non-equivariant inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials, originally defined by Gao and Xie, and give an alternative proof using generating functions. Furthermore, we prove that the inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids are log-concave.
title Equivariant inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids
topic Combinatorics
05B35, 05E05, 20C30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11322