A Determinantal Formula for Supersymmetric Schur Polynomials

Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-307

  Moens, E M ^a   Van Der Jeugt, J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Characters; Covariant tensor representations; Determinantal identities; Lie superalgebra gl(m n); Supersymmetric Schur polynomials

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; TENSORS; THEOREM PROVING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS;

POLYNOMIALS;

EID: 0041781894     PISSN: 09259899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025048821756     Document Type: Article

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22. Private communication: This was outlined to us by Alain Lascoux as an advisor of FPSAC2002, where the results of this paper were presented as a talk.