The peak algebra of the symmetric group revisited
The peak algebra of the symmetric group revisited
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DOI:
10.1016/j.aim.2004.04.007
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发表时间:
2002-09
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1.7
通讯作者:
M. Schocker
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作者:
M. Schocker
The linear span Pnof the sums of all permutations in the symmetric group Snwith a given set of peaks is a sub-algebra of the symmetric group algebra, due to Nyman. This peak algebra is a left ideal of the descent algebra Dn; and the direct sum P of all Pnis a Hopf sub-algebra of the direct sum D of all Dn, dual to the Stembridge algebra of peak functions. In our self-contained approach, peak counterparts of several results on the descent algebra are established, including a simple combinatorial characterization of the algebra Pn; an algebraic characterization of Pnbased on the action on the Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt basis of the free associative algebra; the display of peak variants of the classical Lie idempotents; an Eulerian-type sub-algebra of Pn; a description of the Jacobson radical of Pnand its nil-potency index, of the principal indecomposable and irreducible Pn-modules, and of the Cartan matrix of Pn. Furthermore, it is shown that the primitive Lie algebra of P is free, and that P is its enveloping algebra.