Pattern-Avoiding Peak Functions

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contents In 2020, Hamaker, Pawlowski, and Sagan introduced the \emph{pattern quasisymmetric functions}, which are quasisymmetric functions associated with pattern-avoidance classes of permutations, and defined via expansions in fundamental quasisymmetric functions. They determined which subsets of the symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_3$ index pattern quasisymmetric functions that are symmetric, and showed that these symmetric pattern quasisymmetric functions are also Schur-positive. They then posed the question of when symmetry or Schur $P$-positivity occur for analogous quasisymmetric functions defined in terms of peak functions. In this work we answer this question, that is, we identify precisely which subsets of $\mathfrak{S}_3$ give a \emph{pattern-avoiding peak function} that is symmetric, and give explicit formulas for the positive expansion into the closely-related Schur $Q$-functions.
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Slattery-Holmes, Matthew
Combinatorics
05A05, 05E05, 05E10
In 2020, Hamaker, Pawlowski, and Sagan introduced the \emph{pattern quasisymmetric functions}, which are quasisymmetric functions associated with pattern-avoidance classes of permutations, and defined via expansions in fundamental quasisymmetric functions. They determined which subsets of the symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_3$ index pattern quasisymmetric functions that are symmetric, and showed that these symmetric pattern quasisymmetric functions are also Schur-positive. They then posed the question of when symmetry or Schur $P$-positivity occur for analogous quasisymmetric functions defined in terms of peak functions. In this work we answer this question, that is, we identify precisely which subsets of $\mathfrak{S}_3$ give a \emph{pattern-avoiding peak function} that is symmetric, and give explicit formulas for the positive expansion into the closely-related Schur $Q$-functions.
title Pattern-Avoiding Peak Functions
topic Combinatorics
05A05, 05E05, 05E10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17116