Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 93B.2 (2025), 12 pp.

Donghyun Kim and Jaeseong Oh

Extending the Science Fiction and the Loehr-Warrington Formula

Abstract. We introduce the Macdonald piece polynomial Iμ,λ,k[X;q,t], which is a vast generalization of the Macdonald intersection polynomial in the science fiction conjecture by Bergeron and Garsia. We demonstrate a remarkable connection between Iμ,λ,k, ∇sλ, and the Loehr-Warrington formula LWλ, thereby obtaining the Loehr-Warrington conjecture as a corollary. We also present an extension of the science fiction conjecture and the Macdonald positivity by exploiting Iμ,λ,k.


Received: November 15, 2024. Accepted: February 15, 2025. Final version: April 1, 2025.

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