Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 93B.46 (2025), 12 pp.

Eric Marberg and Jiayi Wen

On Some Grothendieck Expansions

Abstract. The complete flag variety admits a natural action by both the orthogonal group and the symplectic group. Wyser and Yong defined orthogonal Grothendieck polynomials GzO and symplectic Grothendieck polynomials GzSp as the K-theory classes of the corresponding orbit closures. There is an explicit formula to expand GzSp as a nonnegative sum of Grothendieck polynomials G, which represent the K-theory classes of Schubert varieties. Although the constructions of GzSp and GzO are similar, finding the G-expansion of GzO or even computing GzO is much harder. When z is vexillary, it has been shown that GzO has a nonnegative G-expansion, but the G-coefficients are mostly unknown. This paper derives several new formulas for GzO and its G-expansion when z is vexillary. In particular, we prove that the latter expansion has a nontrivial stability property when z(1)=1.


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

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